Virginia Tech joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as new contributing institution!

Contact person is Philip Young.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by Virginia Tech contains information on publication fees paid ifrom 2012 to 2016.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 167 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 185 902€ and the average fee is 1 113€.

The following table and plots show the payments the university has made to publishers from 2012 to 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 35 38902 1111
Springer Nature 35 47770 1365
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 14 13737 981
Springer Science + Business Media 13 20174 1552
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 11 1355 123
MDPI AG 10 10828 1083
Wiley-Blackwell 10 13399 1340
International Medical Publisher (Fundacion de Neurociencias) 7 1837 262
Optical Society of America (OSA) 5 7085 1417
Frontiers Media SA 4 5434 1359
Informa UK Limited 3 3841 1280
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 4784 1595
American Dairy Science Association 2 2066 1033
SAGE Publications 2 991 496
STEM Education and Research Institute 2 664 332
AIP Publishing 1 1402 1402
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 1194 1194
Copernicus GmbH 1 845 845
Crop Science Society of America 1 1650 1650
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1353 1353
Elsevier BV 1 225 225
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1318 1318
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1443 1443
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1380 1380
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 886 886
The Company of Biologists 1 1341 1341

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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University of Milan joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan) as our first contributing institution from Italy!

Contact person is Paola Galimberti.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by the University of Milan contains information on publication fees paid in 2016.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 57 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 90 069€ and the average fee is 1 580€.

The following table and plots show the payments the university has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 21 32432 1544
Elsevier BV 7 15429 2204
MDPI AG 4 4698 1175
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 10033 2508
Frontiers Media SA 3 4591 1530
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 2909 970
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3218 1609
Impact Journals, LLC 2 5338 2669
American Physiological Society 1 470 470
MedCrave Group, LLC 1 230 230
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1916 1916
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1246 1246
S. Karger AG 1 1732 1732
SAGE 1 1549 1549
SAGE Publications 1 2165 2165
Sciedu Press 1 215 215
The Endocrine Society 1 1288 1288
Timeline Publication Pvt. Ltd 1 110 110
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 500 500

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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TiHo Hannover joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo) as new contributing institution! 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.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by the TiHo contains information on publication fees paid in 2016.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 78 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 102 413€ and the average fee is 1 313€.

The following table and plots show the payments the TiHo Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 26 39803 1531
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 11 16690 1517
MDPI AG 8 10897 1362
American Dairy Science Association 4 4320 1080
AVA-Agrar Verlag Allgäu GmbH 4 1428 357
Frontiers Media SA 4 6834 1709
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6187 1547
Informa UK Limited 3 589 196
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) 2 1384 692
Elsevier BV 2 3197 1598
Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft 2 2023 1012
Austin Publishing Group 1 1672 1672
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1626 1626
OMICS Publishing Group 1 566 566
PeerJ 1 638 638
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1151 1151
The Company of Biologists 1 1428 1428
VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK 1 547 547
Wildlife Disease Association 1 1435 1435

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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