03 Jan 2024
University of Passau has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs for the 2020-2021 period as well as on BPCs for the 2019-2023 period.
Passau University Library operates the University’s Open Access Publishing Funds.
Contact Person is Michael Zweier.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 5 articles, total expenditure amounts to 3,232€ and the average fee is 646€.
The following table provides an overview of the new APC data. 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 |
| Elsevier BV |
1 |
524 |
524 |
| MDPI AG |
1 |
1075 |
1075 |
| SAGE Publications |
1 |
642 |
642 |
| Scientia Moralitas Research Institute |
1 |
78 |
78 |
| Springer Nature |
1 |
914 |
914 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Unversity of Passau now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
22 Dec 2023
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 GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein manages and reports data on APC expenditures for the GFZ.
Contact person for the data set is Roland Bertelmann.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 67 articles, total expenditure amounts to 98 740€ and the average fee is 1 474€.
The following table shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the GFZ in 2022.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Copernicus GmbH |
17 |
20878 |
1228 |
| Springer Nature |
15 |
23342 |
1556 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
10 |
16532 |
1653 |
| MDPI AG |
10 |
15196 |
1520 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
6 |
11066 |
1844 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
3781 |
945 |
| American Astronomical Society |
1 |
1281 |
1281 |
| EDP Sciences |
1 |
1142 |
1142 |
| Elsevier BV |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
| GeoScienceWorld |
1 |
1908 |
1908 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1614 |
1614 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the GFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
21 Dec 2023
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 Bayreuth had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated. It covers the 2022 period and some records for 2023.
Bayreuth University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 96 articles, total expenditure amounts to 226,105€ and the average fee is 2,355€.
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 |
30 |
58327 |
1944 |
| Springer Nature |
24 |
65510 |
2730 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
14 |
42614 |
3044 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
7 |
18224 |
2603 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
3 |
8525 |
2842 |
| Elsevier BV |
2 |
4159 |
2080 |
| Informa UK Limited |
2 |
2594 |
1297 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
2442 |
1221 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
4182 |
4182 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
2190 |
2190 |
| DAAAM International |
1 |
1178 |
1178 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
3160 |
3160 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1827 |
1827 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
2116 |
2116 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1317 |
1317 |
| PeerJ |
1 |
1698 |
1698 |
| Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
1017 |
1017 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
2146 |
2146 |
| Schweizerbart |
1 |
1687 |
1687 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1190 |
1190 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
