09 Jan 2024
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 for the 2022 period, the University of Cologne had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the university participate in OpenAPC for the first time.
Contact person for Cologne is Inga Frieman.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by the University of Cologne covers publication fees for 133 articles, total expenditure amounts to 333,543€ and the average fee is 2,508€.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
98 |
253410 |
2586 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
11 |
25644 |
2331 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
18364 |
2295 |
| MDPI AG |
5 |
7876 |
1575 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
3 |
6625 |
2208 |
| EMBO |
3 |
13709 |
4570 |
| Informa UK Limited |
2 |
3332 |
1666 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
369 |
369 |
| Elsevier BV |
1 |
2332 |
2332 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1882 |
1882 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
08 Jan 2024
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 Heidelberg University had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The University Library Heidelberg 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 is Dr. Georg Schwesinger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 478 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,107,574€ and the average fee is 2,317€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
178 |
414710 |
2330 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
125 |
309899 |
2479 |
| MDPI AG |
61 |
129648 |
2125 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
25 |
56082 |
2243 |
| BMJ |
18 |
36139 |
2008 |
| Elsevier BV |
18 |
33815 |
1879 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
15 |
41766 |
2784 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
9756 |
1951 |
| EMBO |
4 |
17993 |
4498 |
| SAGE Publications |
4 |
6056 |
1514 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
4744 |
2372 |
| IOP Publishing |
2 |
4629 |
2315 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
6169 |
3084 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
5605 |
2803 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
3399 |
1699 |
| ALTEX Edition |
1 |
2380 |
2380 |
| AME Publishing Company |
1 |
1694 |
1694 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
2190 |
2190 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. |
1 |
3370 |
3370 |
| Cogitatio |
1 |
1130 |
1130 |
| E.U. European Publishing |
1 |
1190 |
1190 |
| Future Science, LTD |
1 |
1547 |
1547 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2797 |
2797 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
2174 |
2174 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
2324 |
2324 |
| Maad Rayan Publishing Company |
1 |
877 |
877 |
| Medical Journals Sweden AB |
1 |
1904 |
1904 |
| Quintessence Publishing |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
| University of California Press |
1 |
1742 |
1742 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
595 |
595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
08 Jan 2024
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 Universität Hannover had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Leibniz Universität operates an Open Access publishing fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact persons is Jessica Michel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 160 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 305 259€ and the average fee is 1 908€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
83 |
143426 |
1728 |
| Springer Nature |
19 |
40887 |
2152 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
16 |
46232 |
2890 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
9 |
15236 |
1693 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
7 |
13223 |
1889 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
7 |
16499 |
2357 |
| Elsevier BV |
4 |
6307 |
1577 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
3 |
5732 |
1911 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
2814 |
1407 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
1785 |
892 |
| AIP Publishing |
1 |
1699 |
1699 |
| American Society for Horticultural Science |
1 |
2079 |
2079 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
2017 |
2017 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1004 |
1004 |
| Optica Publishing Group |
1 |
1928 |
1928 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1261 |
1261 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1926 |
1926 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG |
1 |
1204 |
1204 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Universität Hannover now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
