29 Jul 2016
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has updated its APC expenditures for Springer Nature, PLoS and ScienceOpen articles in the 2015 period.
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 176 articles published by MPG researchers, which MPDL covered in 2015. Total expenditure amounts to 282 150€ and the average fee is 1 603€.
The following table shows the payments the MPDL has made to the 3 aforementioned publishers in 2015:
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
119 |
193427 |
1625 |
| Springer Nature |
55 |
86879 |
1580 |
| ScienceOpen |
2 |
1844 |
922 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the MPDL now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
27 Jul 2016
We welcome the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen as new contributing institution! Tübingen 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 Ute Holzwarth.
About the dataset
The initial dataset contributed by University of Tübingen contains information on publication fees paid in 3 years from 2013 to 2015.
Cost Data
The dataset covers publication fees for 400 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 535 437€ and the average fee is 1 339€.
The following table shows the payments the University of Tübingen has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
99 |
107749 |
1088 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
85 |
112731 |
1326 |
| Springer Science + Business Media |
70 |
106374 |
1520 |
| Springer Nature |
40 |
61248 |
1531 |
| S. Karger AG |
37 |
63981 |
1729 |
| MDPI AG |
19 |
20550 |
1082 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
9 |
7802 |
867 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
5198 |
1040 |
| Elsevier BV |
5 |
7488 |
1498 |
| OMICS Publishing Group |
4 |
4486 |
1121 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
5018 |
1673 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
2 |
3531 |
1765 |
| IOP Publishing |
2 |
2570 |
1285 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
3468 |
1734 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
4899 |
2450 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. |
1 |
653 |
653 |
| ALTEX Edition |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
| Austin Publishing group |
1 |
1786 |
1786 |
| BMJ |
1 |
1380 |
1380 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1371 |
1371 |
| Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
1986 |
1986 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
1 |
562 |
562 |
| International Scientific Literature |
1 |
892 |
892 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
150 |
150 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1858 |
1858 |
| Libertas Academica, Ltd. |
1 |
1687 |
1687 |
| Nature Publishing Group |
1 |
1245 |
1245 |
| omics international |
1 |
863 |
863 |
| Openventio Publishers |
1 |
632 |
632 |
| PeerJ |
1 |
897 |
897 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
1 |
381 |
381 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
27 Jul 2016
TU Ilmenau has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides the first data for the 2016 period.
The University Library of TU Ilmenau is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Peter Blume.
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 4 articles, which the fund covered in 2016 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 5 486€ and the average fee is 1 372€.
The following table shows the payments University Library of TU Ilmenau has made to publishers in 2016.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| AIP Publishing |
1 |
1462 |
1462 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
2004 |
2004 |
| MDPI AG |
2 |
2021 |
1010 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for TU Ilmenau now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
