TH Köln joins OpenAPC

We welcome the TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences as new contributing institution!

The University Library is in charge of the University’s Publishing Fund.

An initial data set on on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements for the 2023 period has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Kerstin Klein.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the TH Köln covers publication fees for 25 articles, total expenditure amounts to 49,154€ and the average fee is 1,966€. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 11 21157 1923
Elsevier BV 4 9530 2382
Springer Nature 3 5975 1992
Frontiers Media SA 2 5142 2571
Informa UK Limited 1 2710 2710
Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte Ltd (NASS) 1 100 100
SAGE Publications 1 2810 2810
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 540 540
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1190 1190

Overview

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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HAWK joins OpenAPC

We welcome the HAWK University of applied sciences and arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen as new contributing institution!

The University Library is in charge of the University’s Publishing Fund.

An initial data set on APC expenditures and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature for the 2020-2023 period has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Simon Inselmann.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by HAWK covers publication fees for 8 articles, total expenditure amounts to 13,210€ and the average fee is 1,651€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 4 5616 1404
Springer Nature 3 5793 1931
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1800 1800

Overview

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Siegen reports 2022 data

The University of Siegen has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.

Siegen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person for the data set is Lena Vinnemann.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 31 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 70,515€ and the average fee is 2,275€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 12 33754 2813
Frontiers Media SA 5 12992 2598
MDPI AG 5 8684 1737
Elsevier BV 2 2379 1190
Optica Publishing Group 2 2688 1344
Copernicus GmbH 1 1232 1232
Informa UK Limited 1 710 710
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 1904 1904
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2030 2030
Wiley-Blackwell 1 4141 4141

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Siegen now looks as follows:

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