20 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 Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The BIS (Library and Information System) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Kim Braun.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 44 articles, total expenditure amounts to 87 657€ and the average fee is 1 992€.
The following table shows the new payment information contained in the transferred data.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
9 |
16977 |
1886 |
| Springer Nature |
8 |
15903 |
1988 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
6 |
19399 |
3233 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
4 |
7810 |
1952 |
| EDP Sciences |
3 |
1999 |
666 |
| SAGE Publications |
3 |
3020 |
1007 |
| BMJ |
2 |
4749 |
2375 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3475 |
1737 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
2302 |
2302 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1100 |
1100 |
| Elsevier BV |
1 |
2082 |
2082 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
2975 |
2975 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
2269 |
2269 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1589 |
1589 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
1 |
2009 |
2009 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
20 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 Natural History Museum Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde) 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 Natural History Museum Berlin is Stefanie Paß.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by the Natural History Museum Berlin covers publication fees for 6 articles, total expenditure amounts to 8,014€ and the average fee is 1,336€.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| PeerJ |
2 |
2158 |
1079 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
2370 |
2370 |
| Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
835 |
835 |
| The Royal Society |
1 |
1020 |
1020 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1631 |
1631 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
20 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, Osnabrück University had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Osnabrück University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Sabine Boccalini.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 72 articles, total expenditure amounts to 167 961€ and the average fee is 2 333€.
The following table shows the payments Osnabrück University Library has made to publishers in 2022.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Frontiers Media SA |
18 |
46488 |
2583 |
| MDPI AG |
15 |
32446 |
2163 |
| Elsevier BV |
6 |
14104 |
2351 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
11580 |
2316 |
| Springer Nature |
5 |
20103 |
4021 |
| IOP Publishing |
3 |
7206 |
2402 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
7187 |
3594 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
4058 |
2029 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
2 |
1144 |
572 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
3340 |
1670 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
3944 |
3944 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
3195 |
3195 |
| Eurasian Society of Educational Research |
1 |
799 |
799 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
| International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) |
1 |
476 |
476 |
| MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1681 |
1681 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
2715 |
2715 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1056 |
1056 |
| SAGE Publications |
1 |
332 |
332 |
| Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
2328 |
2328 |
| University of Bern |
1 |
1035 |
1035 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1495 |
1495 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Osnabrück University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
