Jisc collections data included into OpenAPC

Jisc Collections has been gathering and openly releasing data on APC payments made by UK higher education institutions (HEIs).

One of these datasets (APC data for the 2014 period) has now been included into OpenAPC.

Cost data

The ingested data covers publication fees for 4,559 articles published by 22 UK institutions in 2014. Total expenditure amounts to 9 388 175€ and the average fee is 2 059€.

The following table and plots show a breakdown of the payments.

Overview

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 918 2085553 2272
Wiley-Blackwell 730 1580005 2164
Springer Science + Business Media 598 1167899 1953
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 313 411924 1316
Oxford University Press (OUP) 235 577697 2458
BMJ 228 506481 2221
American Chemical Society (ACS) 147 335820 2284
Frontiers Media SA 134 154313 1152
Nature Publishing Group 129 481270 3731
Informa UK Limited 124 251173 2026
SAGE Publications 99 67810 685
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 89 165367 1858
The Royal Society 88 148207 1684
IOP Publishing 63 135747 2155
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 58 82212 1417
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 49 132561 2705
AIP Publishing 40 72415 1810
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 33 59510 1803
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 28 73644 2630
American Society for Microbiology 27 57752 2139
MDPI AG 26 29998 1154
Society for Neuroscience 26 72465 2787
American Physical Society (APS) 24 43161 1798
Copernicus GmbH 23 27433 1193
The Company of Biologists 22 66290 3013
Optical Society of America (OSA) 20 25182 1259
Portland Press Ltd. 13 26430 2033
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 13 16857 1297
Springer Nature 13 31977 2460
American Society for Nutrition 12 50367 4197
The Endocrine Society 12 31944 2662
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 11 11267 1024
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 11 9412 856
American Psychological Association (APA) 9 29450 3272
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 8 12405 1551
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 8 7979 997
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 8 19286 2411
Microbiology Society 8 15709 1964
American Physiological Society 7 13214 1888
American Society of Hematology 7 12609 1801
Geological Society of America 7 14523 2075
EMBO 6 17934 2989
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 6 17499 2917
FASEB 6 11655 1943
OMICS Publishing Group 6 7038 1173
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 5 15126 3025
JMIR Publications Inc. 5 7134 1427
S. Karger AG 5 12954 2591
The American Association of Immunologists 5 11443 2289
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 4 4681 1170
Co-Action Publishing 4 4233 1058
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 4 7350 1837
Future Medicine Ltd 4 9642 2411
MyJove Corporation 4 9223 2306
Royal College of General Practitioners 4 10064 2516
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 4 3386 847
Thomas Telford Ltd. 4 7804 1951
American Meteorological Society 3 1933 644
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 3 6122 2041
British Institute of Radiology 3 7720 2573
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 3 7399 2466
IOS Press 3 3148 1049
MIT Press - Journals 3 2760 920
PeerJ 3 975 325
Royal College of Psychiatrists 3 9929 3310
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 3 5520 1840
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 3 4056 1352
American Society for Clinical Investigation 2 6611 3305
BioScientifica 2 2730 1365
Brill Academic Publishers 2 4295 2147
Edinburgh University Global Health Society 2 2215 1108
Geological Society of London 2 4468 2234
Informa Healthcare 2 6327 3163
The Policy Press 2 4468 2234
American Public Health Association 1 1850 1850
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1 1579 1579
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 1 2777 2777
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 1 2403 2403
American Vacuum Society 1 1593 1593
Canadian Science Publishing 1 2864 2864
EMW Publishing 1 255 255
Human Kinetics 1 1485 1485
International AIDS Society 1 2101 2101
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 1 3041 3041
Johns Hopkins University Press 1 447 447
Liverpool University Press 1 1862 1862
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1096 1096
Royal College of Physicians 1 1489 1489
Society for Leukocyte Biology 1 2045 2045
Sociological Research Online 1 1191 1191
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) 1 1408 1408
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 279 279
University of Chicago Press 1 2307 2307
Future Science, LTD 1 2812 2812
Magnolia Press 1 130 130

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Max Planck Digital Library updates its 2016 expenditures

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has updated its APC expenditures for the New Journal of Physics in the first half of 2016.

MPDL provides institutional funding for Open Access publications for researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Society. MPDL makes use of central agreements with Open Access publishers.

Please note that article processing charges funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of this data set. The Max Planck Society has a limited input tax reduction. The refund of input VAT for APC is 20%.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 29 NJP articles published by MPG researchers, which MPDL covered in 2016 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 36 740€ and the average fee is 1 267€.

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the MPDL now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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University of Oldenburg updates its 2016 APC expenditures

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides price updates and additional data for the 2016 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost Data

With 14 new articles included, the dataset now covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 63 175€ and the average fee is 1 071€.

The following table and plots show the payments the BIS has made to publishers in 2016 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 17 23820 1401
Springer Nature 7 7744 1106
MDPI AG 6 7264 1211
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 6502 1300
SAGE Publications 5 2198 440
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 1805 602
European Optical Society 2 800 400
IOP Publishing 2 2685 1342
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 472 472
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1377 1377
BMJ 1 1520 1520
Botanical Society of America 1 313 313
Copernicus GmbH 1 1339 1339
Elsevier BV 1 1218 1218
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1361 1361
Medip Academy 1 63 63
Mongabay 1 230 230
PAGEPress Publications 1 500 500
PeerJ 1 622 622
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1342 1342

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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