TH Wildau reports its 2023 APC expenditures

The Technische Hochschule Wildau has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.

Wildau University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2020.

Contact Person is Friederike Borchert.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 4 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 792€ and the average fee is 1 948€.

The following table shows the payments Wildau University Library has made to publishers in 2023 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 2 3860 1930
Frontiers Media SA 1 2957 2957
Springer Nature 1 975 975

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Wildau 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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University of Passau 2022 APC data integrated

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 Passau had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

Passau University Library operates the University’s Open Access Publishing Funds.

Contact Person is Lisa Spindler.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 6 articles, total expenditure amounts to 7,883€ and the average fee is 1,314€.

The following table and plots shows the payments Passau University Library has made to publishers in 2022:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 2 3483 1742
Frontiers Media SA 1 738 738
Informa UK Limited 1 1090 1090
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1563 1563
Springer Nature 1 1009 1009

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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PIK 2022 APC data integrated

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 PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) 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 at the PIK.

Contact person for the data set is Roland Bertelmann.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 43 articles, total expenditure amounts to 94 965€ and the average fee is 2 208€.

The following table and plots shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the PIK in 2022:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
IOP Publishing 16 26909 1682
Springer Nature 9 27399 3044
Copernicus GmbH 7 11472 1639
Elsevier BV 4 16450 4112
Frontiers Media SA 2 1979 990
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4239 4239
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1529 1529
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2223 2223
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University 1 1051 1051
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1712 1712

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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