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 GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung 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.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by GSI covers publication fees for 30 articles, total expenditure amounts to 67,152€ and the average fee is 2,238€.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
5 |
9325 |
1865 |
| Elsevier BV |
5 |
12811 |
2562 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
4 |
10617 |
2654 |
| Springer Nature |
4 |
10997 |
2749 |
| MDPI AG |
3 |
4431 |
1477 |
| Optica Publishing Group |
3 |
5736 |
1912 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
4805 |
2403 |
| AIP Publishing |
1 |
3149 |
3149 |
| American Astronomical Society |
1 |
2159 |
2159 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
2403 |
2403 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
720 |
720 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
05 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 University of Greifswald had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Greifswald 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 is Stefanie Bollin.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 198 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 443,736€ and the average fee is 2,241€.
The following table provides an overview.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
59 |
119532 |
2026 |
| Springer Nature |
50 |
109420 |
2188 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
31 |
86565 |
2792 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
15 |
30857 |
2057 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
6416 |
1283 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
10194 |
2039 |
| Elsevier BV |
4 |
11300 |
2825 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
4 |
11651 |
2913 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) |
3 |
9732 |
3244 |
| BMJ |
3 |
6909 |
2303 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
8509 |
2836 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
5283 |
2641 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
2 |
4762 |
2381 |
| S. Karger AG |
2 |
3365 |
1682 |
| AIP Publishing |
1 |
1788 |
1788 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1313 |
1313 |
| American Society of Hematology |
1 |
3529 |
3529 |
| BioScientifica |
1 |
2332 |
2332 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
1575 |
1575 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1264 |
1264 |
| German Medical Science |
1 |
800 |
800 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2777 |
2777 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2186 |
2186 |
| The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1675 |
1675 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Greifswald now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
05 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 University of Göttingen had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The Göttingen State and 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 is Astrid Orth.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 389 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 827 112€ and the average fee is 2 126€.
The following table provides an overview.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
124 |
241056 |
1944 |
| Springer Nature |
76 |
172362 |
2268 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
72 |
160608 |
2231 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
34 |
70641 |
2078 |
| Elsevier BV |
22 |
50746 |
2307 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
17 |
38660 |
2274 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
8 |
15503 |
1938 |
| Informa UK Limited |
4 |
9616 |
2404 |
| BMJ |
3 |
8317 |
2772 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
2 |
8980 |
4490 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
4078 |
2039 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
4929 |
2464 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
3641 |
1821 |
| Future Science, LTD |
2 |
3142 |
1571 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
2740 |
1370 |
| PeerJ |
2 |
3007 |
1504 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation |
1 |
4768 |
4768 |
| Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) |
1 |
1190 |
1190 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
3216 |
3216 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1401 |
1401 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1446 |
1446 |
| International Food and Agribusiness Management Association |
1 |
1309 |
1309 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. |
1 |
1185 |
1185 |
| IOS Press |
1 |
1488 |
1488 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
4041 |
4041 |
| MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
2598 |
2598 |
| Optica Publishing Group |
1 |
1965 |
1965 |
| Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
1125 |
1125 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1891 |
1891 |
| SAGE Publications |
1 |
1266 |
1266 |
| Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society |
1 |
197 |
197 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
