14 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 Augsburg had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the university participate in OpenAPC for the first time.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by the University of Augsburg covers publication fees for 29 articles, total expenditure amounts to 67,747€ and the average fee is 2,336€.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
15 |
30300 |
2020 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
3 |
7766 |
2589 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
5392 |
2696 |
| Informa UK Limited |
2 |
6497 |
3249 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
4937 |
2469 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1805 |
1805 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
1 |
4326 |
4326 |
| MDPI AG |
1 |
2683 |
2683 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
2380 |
2380 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1660 |
1660 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
14 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 Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASH Berlin) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the university participate in OpenAPC for the first time.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin covers publication fees for 1 article.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| SAGE Publications |
1 |
593 |
593 |
13 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, Ulm University had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2016.
Contact person is Uli Hahn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 206 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 520 718€ and the average fee is 2 528€.
The following table shows the payments the kiz has made to publishers in 2021.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Frontiers Media SA |
98 |
259489 |
2648 |
| MDPI AG |
38 |
82186 |
2163 |
| Springer Nature |
31 |
86271 |
2783 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
10 |
25370 |
2537 |
| Elsevier BV |
5 |
8181 |
1636 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
5 |
9605 |
1921 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
3 |
10177 |
3392 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
6861 |
2287 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
5962 |
2981 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
2 |
2745 |
1373 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1805 |
1805 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) |
1 |
3281 |
3281 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
2642 |
2642 |
| EMBO |
1 |
4284 |
4284 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1930 |
1930 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
3065 |
3065 |
| The Company of Biologists |
1 |
4097 |
4097 |
| The Royal Society |
1 |
2142 |
2142 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
624 |
624 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ulm now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
