18 May 2017
The University of Milan has updated its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.
Contact person is Paola Galimberti.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 11 Springer articles published in 2016, amounting to 16 290€ and an average fee of 1 481€.
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Milan now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

16 May 2017
The University of Freiburg has updated its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.
Freiburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Annette Scheiner.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 152 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 245 215€ and the average fee is 1 613€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2016.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
77 |
126949 |
1649 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
25 |
42379 |
1695 |
Frontiers Media SA |
18 |
32003 |
1778 |
MDPI AG |
8 |
9236 |
1155 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
5 |
9137 |
1827 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
3691 |
1846 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
3383 |
1692 |
Pensoft Publishers |
2 |
910 |
455 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
2852 |
1426 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
357 |
357 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1820 |
1820 |
BMJ |
1 |
1809 |
1809 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1012 |
1012 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2166 |
2166 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2386 |
2386 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1848 |
1848 |
International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions |
1 |
250 |
250 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1651 |
1651 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
755 |
755 |
Wildlife Biology |
1 |
620 |
620 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

11 May 2017
The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has updated its APC expenditures for the 2016 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).
For 2016, the publishing fund is funded by resources from the strategy fund of the Leibniz Association Executive Board in the amount of 200,000 €.
Cost data
The new dataset covers additional publication fees for 14 articles covered by the fund in 2016.
Please note that APCs exceeding 2,000 EUR are shared between the fund and the corresponding Leibniz institution and that this data set only covers payments made via the central open access publishing fund.
With the recent contribution included, total expenditure for the 2016 period amounts to 242 308€ and the average fee is 1 694€. The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
46 |
83250 |
1810 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
32 |
53965 |
1686 |
Frontiers Media SA |
10 |
18739 |
1874 |
MDPI AG |
10 |
9274 |
927 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
6 |
9973 |
1662 |
Copernicus GmbH |
4 |
4712 |
1178 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
4 |
10204 |
2551 |
AIP Publishing |
3 |
5306 |
1769 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
3 |
9301 |
3100 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
4667 |
1556 |
IOP Publishing |
3 |
5569 |
1856 |
BMJ |
2 |
5441 |
2720 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
2 |
4869 |
2435 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
2 |
231 |
116 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
3963 |
1981 |
Pensoft Publishers |
2 |
768 |
384 |
The Royal Society |
2 |
3998 |
1999 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
952 |
952 |
Genetics Society of America |
1 |
2073 |
2073 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1452 |
1452 |
Inter-Research Science Center |
1 |
1606 |
1606 |
International Institute of Science, Technology and Education (IISTE) |
1 |
173 |
173 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
570 |
570 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
