University of Freiburg joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Freiburg as new contributing institution! 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.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by University of Freiburg contains information on publication fees paid in 5 years from 2011 to 2015.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 471 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 626 480€ and the average fee is 1 330€.

The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Science + Business Media 117 167464 1431
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 114 149204 1309
Springer Nature 66 103942 1575
Frontiers Media SA 46 69977 1521
Copernicus GmbH 22 27526 1251
MDPI AG 20 15345 767
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 14 12970 926
Optical Society of America (OSA) 10 15150 1515
IOP Publishing 7 7745 1106
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 6 4321 720
BMJ 4 7171 1793
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 4 7180 1795
Elsevier BV 4 2016 504
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6611 1653
Nature Publishing Group 3 3734 1245
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 4989 1663
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 2910 970
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 3 3274 1091
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 2 500 250
SAGE Publications 2 1250 625
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. 2 416 208
American Society for Microbiology 1 1820 1820
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. 1 495 495
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 1 596 596
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 287 287
Informa UK Limited 1 1524 1524
Interciencia Association 1 937 937
Joule Inc. 1 1463 1463
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 50 50
Libertas Academica, Ltd. 1 1522 1522
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 993 993
OMICS Publishing Group 1 671 671
PAGEPress Publications 1 476 476
Pensoft Publishers 1 357 357
Rural Outreach Programm 1 345 345
The Company of Biologists 1 1250 1250

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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Ulm University joins OpenAPC

We welcome Ulm University as new contributing institution! The Communication and Information Center (kiz) of Ulm University 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 Uli Hahn.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by Ulm University contains information on publication fees paid in 2 years from 2014 to 2015.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 78 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 117 982€ and the average fee is 1 513€.

The following table shows the payments Ulm University has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 17 23943 1408
IOP Publishing 12 14558 1213
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 13632 1136
Springer Nature 10 24334 2433
Elsevier BV 8 14491 1811
Wiley-Blackwell 5 9520 1904
Nature Publishing Group 3 2812 938
AIP Publishing 2 2734 1367
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2468 2468
American Physiological Society 1 1449 1449
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 1 1333 1333
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1409 1409
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1308 1308
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1117 1117
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1469 1469
Science Publishing Group 1 260 260
Springer Science + Business Media 1 1142 1142

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Additional Wellcome Trust data (2013-2014) included

In 2014 the Wellcome Trust started to make its APC expenditures publicly available. Another set of this data now been processed and added to Open APC’s data collection.

About the dataset

The dataset contributed by the Wellcome Trust contains information on publication fees covering a time span from October 2013 to September 2014 (Open APC treats this data as having all been processed in the 2014 period).

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 2,486 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 5 572 968€ and the average fee is 2 242€.

The following table shows the payments the Wellcome Trust has made to publishers in 2014 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 531 1426957 2687
Wiley-Blackwell 337 783693 2326
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 275 374085 1360
Springer Science + Business Media 252 511926 2031
Oxford University Press (OUP) 205 505085 2464
Nature Publishing Group 82 306616 3739
BMJ 76 184006 2421
Frontiers Media SA 66 74403 1127
American Society for Microbiology 54 114510 2121
Informa UK Limited 49 100202 2045
American Chemical Society (ACS) 48 99312 2069
The Company of Biologists 44 131673 2993
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 43 67871 1578
Society for Neuroscience 35 86255 2464
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 33 80425 2437
SAGE Publications 32 44521 1391
The Royal Society 32 53566 1674
Portland Press Ltd. 31 69850 2253
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 22 62148 2825
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 19 16833 886
Microbiology Society 17 41662 2451
American Psychological Association (APA) 15 49913 3328
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 13 22171 1705
The Endocrine Society 12 31343 2612
Co-Action Publishing 11 14838 1349
American Society of Hematology 10 16728 1673
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 10 22605 2260
Future Medicine Ltd 8 17593 2199
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 8 7242 905
MDPI AG 8 9244 1156
MyJove Corporation 8 17653 2207
Royal College of Psychiatrists 8 29316 3664
American Physiological Society 7 12065 1724
S. Karger AG 6 16978 2830
Johns Hopkins University Press 5 12567 2513
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 4 10294 2573
EMBO 4 10630 2657
IOP Publishing 4 9552 2388
The American Association of Immunologists 4 8526 2132
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 3 5688 1896
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 3 9088 3029
MIT Press - Journals 3 2834 945
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 6000 2000
American Dairy Science Association 2 3783 1891
American Psychiatric Publishing 2 5625 2813
American Society for Nutrition 2 8754 4377
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2 6550 3275
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 2 5222 2611
BioScientifica 2 4837 2419
Brill Academic Publishers 2 4290 2145
F1000 Research, Ltd. 2 1186 593
FASEB 2 4131 2066
Genetics Society of America 2 2625 1313
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 1847 924
International AIDS Society 2 4721 2360
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2 6092 3046
OMICS Publishing Group 2 3308 1654
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 2 1711 856
American Diabetes Association 1 435 435
American Public Health Association 1 1821 1821
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 3221 3221
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1730 1730
Emerald 1 1458 1458
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1812 1812
Human Kinetics 1 1462 1462
Joule Inc. 1 1530 1530
Liverpool University Press 1 1832 1832
Maney Publishing 1 2578 2578
Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc 1 1849 1849
Scientific Societies 1 1883 1883
Society for Leukocyte Biology 1 1939 1939
The Policy Press 1 2199 2199
University of Chicago Press 1 2270 2270
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1801 1801

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the Wellcome Trust which has been added to OpenAPC up to this point looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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