Forschungszentrum Jülich 2022 APC data integrated

The Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

Participating institutions may opt-in to provide their data to OpenAPC as well, now Jülich’s own APC expeditures for 2022 have been integrated via the same mechanism.

The Central Library(ZB) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich is responsible for the management of publication cost data.

Contact person is Linda McGrath.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 276 articles, total expenditure amounts to 612 078€ and the average fee is 2 218€.

The following table shows the payments the FZJ has made to publishers in 2022.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 50 84758 1695
Frontiers Media SA 49 101490 2071
Elsevier BV 43 102273 2378
Springer Nature 39 94728 2429
Copernicus GmbH 15 27246 1816
American Chemical Society (ACS) 12 43583 3632
Wiley-Blackwell 11 21404 1946
AIP Publishing 9 25932 2881
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 18970 3162
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 5 17757 3551
American Physical Society (APS) 5 12209 2442
American Society for Microbiology 4 10564 2641
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 7304 1826
IOP Publishing 3 4194 1398
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 6007 3004
Society for Neuroscience 2 4301 2150
The Electrochemical Society 2 2380 1190
The Royal Society 2 1723 862
American Astronomical Society 1 2824 2824
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1574 1574
Informa UK Limited 1 1864 1864
IOS Press 1 1617 1617
MIT Press - Journals 1 2144 2144
MyJove Corporation 1 3954 3954
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 2490 2490
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 864 864
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 370 370
Society of Rheology 1 2212 2212
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 410 410
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2405 2405
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd 1 2526 2526

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the FZJ 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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IÖR joins OpenAPC

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung (IÖR) (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Contact person is Christoph Hornung.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the IÖR covers publication fees for 4 articles, total expenditure amounts to 5,198€ and the average fee is 1,300€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University 1 794 794
MDPI AG 1 1262 1262
Oekom Publishers GmbH 1 298 298
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 2844 2844

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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IGB 2022 APC data integrated

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

The IGB Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures and the IGB publishing fund, established in 2018.

Contact Person is Jana Rumler.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 20 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 43,789€ and the average fee is 2,189€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 8 25180 3148
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6169 1542
Copernicus GmbH 3 5196 1732
MDPI AG 3 4477 1492
Pensoft Publishers 1 728 728
The Royal Society 1 2040 2040

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IGB 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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