JLU Gießen 2022 APC data integrated

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 Justus Liebig University Gießen had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

The JLU 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 Florian Ruckelshausen.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 279 articles, total expenditure amounts to 603 015€ and the average fee is 2 161€.

The following table provides an overview.

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG	112	228145	2037
Frontiers Media SA	73	186328	2552
Springer Nature	37	76562	2069
Elsevier BV	8	20944	2618
Wiley-Blackwell	8	14143	1768
Oxford University Press (OUP)	6	15720	2620
Public Library of Science (PLoS)	6	13010	2168
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)	4	8269	2067
Veterinary World	3	2390	797
IMR Press	2	5505	2752
Informa UK Limited	2	4088	2044
JMIR Publications Inc.	2	5840	2920
SAGE Publications	2	596	298
Acta Dermato-Venereologica	1	1696	1696
AIP Publishing	1	1662	1662
Akademiai Kiado Zrt.	1	722	722
American Chemical Society (ACS)	1	1314	1314
BMJ	1	2618	2618
DiGZ. Digitalen Zugang zu Wissen demokratisch gestalten e.V.	1	1100	1100
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd	1	3355	3355
Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices	1	769	769
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)	1	1853	1853
ScopeMed	1	364	364
The Royal Society	1	1714	1714
Ubiquity Press, Ltd.	1	1012	1012
University of Bern	1	1035	1035
University of Uludag	1	2261	2261

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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GEOMAR 2022 APC data integrated

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 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.

Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 60 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 121 276€ and the average fee is 2 021€.

The following table provides an overview.

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH	109	177976	1633
Springer Nature	92	243326	2645
Frontiers Media SA	72	126681	1759
American Geophysical Union (AGU)	48	129090	2689
Wiley-Blackwell	36	76508	2125
MDPI AG	34	49145	1445
Elsevier BV	21	54008	2572
Public Library of Science (PLoS)	10	13686	1369
American Meteorological Society	6	4208	701
REABIC	6	6300	1050
AAAS	5	19548	3910
The Royal Society	5	10200	2040
American Society for Microbiology	4	6739	1685
Geological Society of America	4	6884	1721
Informa UK Limited	3	5365	1788
Inter-Research Science Center	3	5000	1667
Oxford University Press (OUP)	3	7977	2659
PeerJ	3	3000	1000
Walter de Gruyter GmbH	3	6000	2000
IEEE	2	3652	1826
IOP Publishing	2	3600	1800
Georg Thieme Verlag KG	1	2500	2500
Magnolia Press	1	709	709
Microbiology Society	1	2400	2400
Optical Society of America (OSA)	1	2215	2215
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences	1	1200	1200
Society of Economic Geologists	1	2640	2640
The Company of Biologists	1	3830	3830