IZW joins OpenAPC

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Contact person for the IZW is Cornelia Greulich.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the IZW covers publication fees for 23 articles, total expenditure amounts to 43,228€ and the average fee is 1,879€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 5 6946 1389
Wiley-Blackwell 5 7673 1535
Elsevier BV 4 8874 2218
Frontiers Media SA 4 8320 2080
Springer Nature 3 9581 3194
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 560 560
The Royal Society 1 1275 1275

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 2022 APC data integrated

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (FHG) (Fraunhofer Society) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

In the past, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has already made APC expenditures available to OpenAPC. This data originates from the central Fraunhofer Publication Fund.

Contact Person is Stefanie Seeh.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Fraunhofer covers publication fees for 298 articles, total expenditure amounts to 539,727€ and the average fee is 1,811€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 204 351452 1723
Springer Nature 34 60094 1767
Frontiers Media SA 18 46796 2600
Elsevier BV 13 27856 2143
Wiley-Blackwell 12 22057 1838
Optica Publishing Group 4 6811 1703
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5520 1840
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 4333 2166
SAGE Publications 2 2689 1345
American Society for Microbiology 1 1971 1971
BioResources 1 1498 1498
Impact Journals, LLC 1 3607 3607
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1706 1706
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1715 1715
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1623 1623

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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ZMT joins OpenAPC

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) (Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Contact person for the ZMT is Clara Bruns.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the ZMT covers publication fees for 26 articles, total expenditure amounts to 57,672€ and the average fee is 2,218€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 7 14866 2124
Springer Nature 6 13803 2300
Elsevier BV 4 11890 2972
Wiley-Blackwell 4 7108 1777
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 4197 2099
MDPI AG 1 2086 2086
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2268 2268
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1453 1453

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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