Twitter

Leibniz Association's open access fund updates its 2016 APC data

10 Oct 2016

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 73 articles covered by the fund in 2016 YTD.

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 208 581€ and the average fee is 1 617€. The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 44 80490 1829
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 32 53990 1687
MDPI AG 10 9274 927
Frontiers Media SA 7 12165 1738
Wiley-Blackwell 6 9973 1662
Copernicus GmbH 4 4712 1178
IOP Publishing 3 5569 1856
AIP Publishing 2 2833 1417
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2 5590 2795
BMJ 2 5441 2720
Elsevier BV 2 2124 1062
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
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
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1454 1454
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 570 570
The Company of Biologists 1 1250 1250

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf joins OpenAPC

29 Sep 2016

We welcome the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf as new contributing institution! The library of the HZDR has released two initial APC datasets for the 2014 and 2015 periods.

Contact person is Edith Reschke.

Cost Data

The datasets covers publication fees for 52 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 60 183€ and the average fee is 1 157€.

The following table shows the payments the library of the HZDR has made to publishers in 2014 and 2015 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 19 10800 568
Springer Nature 8 17445 2181
IOP Publishing 6 7050 1175
MDPI AG 5 4659 932
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 2948 983
Elsevier BV 2 6221 3111
Frontiers Media SA 2 2829 1414
Nature Publishing Group 2 1721 860
Springer Science + Business Media 2 2418 1209
AIP Publishing 1 1241 1241
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 855 855
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1995 1995

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

plot of chunk tree_hzdr_2016_09_29_full

Average costs per year (in EURO)

plot of chunk box_hzdr_2016_09_29_year_full

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

plot of chunk box_hzdr_2016_09_29_publisher_full

Technische Universität Wien joins OpenAPC

24 Aug 2016

We welcome the Technische Universität Wien as new contributing institution! The Library of the Technische Universität Wien has released an initial APC dataset for the 2015 period.

Contact person is Magdalena Andrae.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 11 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 13 905€ and the average fee is 1 264€.

The following table shows the payments the library of TU Wien has made to publishers in 2015 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 6 6643 1107
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 2343 1172
MDPI AG 2 3633 1817
BioResources 1 1286 1286

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

plot of chunk tree_tuwien_2016_08_24_full

Average costs per year (in EURO)

plot of chunk box_tuwien_2016_08_24_year_full

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

plot of chunk box_tuwien_2016_08_24_publisher_full