Leibniz Association's open access fund reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has updated its APC expenditures for the 2017 period.

Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology). TIB is operating the open access fund together with ZB MED (Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences) and ZBW (German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics).

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 131 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 197 254€ and the average fee is 1 506€.

To interpret the cost data correctly, please have a look at the funding policy of the Leibniz Association’s open access fund.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 38 60711 1598
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 20 30231 1512
Frontiers Media SA 16 30286 1893
MDPI AG 15 18291 1219
Copernicus GmbH 12 15446 1287
Wiley-Blackwell 7 10687 1527
IOP Publishing 4 6962 1740
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 6679 1670
Pensoft Publishers 3 1567 522
Elsevier BV 2 3563 1782
PeerJ 2 2423 1211
AIP Publishing 1 1416 1416
BioScientifica 1 1547 1547
BMJ 1 1726 1726
Informa UK Limited 1 196 196
Inter-Research Science Center 1 1606 1606
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1715 1715
The Royal Society 1 1714 1714
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 487 487

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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TiHo Hannover reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo) has reported its 2017 APC expenditures.

The TiHo Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Julia Dickel.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 72 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 110 905€ and the average fee is 1 540€.

The following table shows the payments the TiHo Library has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 31 43517 1404
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 15 24691 1646
Frontiers Media SA 8 13925 1741
MDPI AG 6 8389 1398
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5913 1971
American Society for Microbiology 2 5777 2888
PeerJ 2 2501 1250
Elsevier BV 1 1649 1649
Informa UK Limited 1 524 524
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1741 1741
The Company of Biologists 1 1428 1428
The Korean Society of Veterinary Science (KAMJE) 1 851 851

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TiHo now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Duisburg-Essen reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.

Duisburg-Essen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact persons are Frank Lützenkirchen and Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 41 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 72 979€ and the average fee is 1 780€.

The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 11 20859 1896
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 9261 1544
Frontiers Media SA 5 10489 2098
BMJ 3 6897 2299
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 5389 2694
MDPI AG 2 2798 1399
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3164 1582
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1392 696
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3701 1850
AIP Publishing 1 1487 1487
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2149 2149
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1136 1136
IOP Publishing 1 1392 1392
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2178 2178
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 687 687

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Duisburg-Essen now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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