08 Mar 2023
The JGU Mainz has updated its cost data, providing BPCs and additional APCs for the 2021 period.
Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds,
which also supports publishing of OA monographs.
Contact person is Karin Eckert.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 4 articles and 3 books. Total expenditure for articles amounts to 5 442€ and the average APC is 1 360€, while the total expenditures for books is 14 760€ with an average BPC of 4 920€.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the latest contribution provided by Mainz University Library.
Articles
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
2 |
3327 |
1664 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1638 |
1638 |
University of Bern |
1 |
476 |
476 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

Books
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frank & Timme |
1 |
5000 |
5000 |
Peter Lang |
1 |
4760 |
4760 |
Springer International Publishing |
1 |
5000 |
5000 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

03 Mar 2023
The Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HsH) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period.
The HsH Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received supports by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2020.
Contact persons are Nicolas Semrau and Andrea Hofmann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 5 articles, total expenditure amounts to 5,320€ and the average fee is 1,064€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
American Dairy Science Association |
1 |
874 |
874 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
884 |
884 |
MDPI AG |
1 |
1443 |
1443 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1717 |
1717 |
RonPub |
1 |
402 |
402 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for HsH now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

02 Mar 2023
The VSB - Technical University of Ostrava has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period.
The VSB Central Library collects data on institutional APCs expenditures and kindly provides that data to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Lenka Votýpková.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 108 articles, total expenditure amounts to 164,008€ and the average fee is 1,519€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
60 |
83817 |
1397 |
Elsevier BV |
16 |
37226 |
2327 |
MM Publishing, s.r.o. |
5 |
2947 |
589 |
Politechnika Koszalinska |
5 |
1467 |
293 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
11886 |
2377 |
Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
5470 |
2735 |
KIPS-CSWRG |
2 |
7755 |
3877 |
Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod |
2 |
975 |
488 |
4S go, s.r.o. |
1 |
257 |
257 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1336 |
1336 |
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
1 |
951 |
951 |
Asociatia Carpatica de Mediu si Stiintele Pamantului |
1 |
182 |
182 |
Centre of Sociological Research, NGO |
1 |
702 |
702 |
Institut Za Lokalno Samoupravo in Javna Narocila Maribor |
1 |
198 |
198 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
3480 |
3480 |
Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, AS CR |
1 |
965 |
965 |
Instytut Badan Gospodarczych / Institute of Economic Research |
1 |
485 |
485 |
ISMA SYC INT |
1 |
1876 |
1876 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
2036 |
2036 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ostrava now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
