27 Jan 2023
New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 212 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 465 622€ and the average fee is 2 196€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
74 |
144693 |
1955 |
Frontiers Media SA |
68 |
176814 |
2600 |
Springer Nature |
33 |
70219 |
2128 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
19254 |
2139 |
Informa UK Limited |
5 |
7783 |
1557 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
8949 |
2983 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
6807 |
2269 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
3594 |
1797 |
Eurasian Society of Educational Research |
2 |
1245 |
622 |
Hogrefe Publishing Group |
2 |
3480 |
1740 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
4926 |
2463 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
3305 |
1652 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
3144 |
3144 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
1107 |
1107 |
BMJ |
1 |
2856 |
2856 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
2793 |
2793 |
Optica Publishing Group |
1 |
2034 |
2034 |
Science Publishing Group |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
1369 |
1369 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Bielefeld now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

26 Jan 2023
We welcome the RWTH Aachen as new contributing institution!
As part of the JOIN² network the RWTH library integrates data data on publication costs into their INVENIO repository, where OpenAPC can harvest the records via the OAI-PMH protocol. This has now been done for the first time, with OpenAPC ingesting a first data set consisting of Gold APCs.
Contact Person is Corinna Mescherowsky.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 415 articles published between 2017 and 2022. The total expenditure amounts to 477,951€ and the average fee is 1,152€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
242 |
279956 |
1157 |
MDPI AG |
43 |
43533 |
1012 |
Elsevier BV |
37 |
11947 |
323 |
Frontiers Media SA |
14 |
33521 |
2394 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
12 |
15934 |
1328 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
10 |
21010 |
2101 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
9 |
13211 |
1468 |
Copernicus GmbH |
7 |
9157 |
1308 |
AIP Publishing |
4 |
5312 |
1328 |
Informa UK Limited |
4 |
4955 |
1239 |
SAGE Publications |
3 |
2981 |
994 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
3 |
1442 |
481 |
BMJ |
2 |
3803 |
1901 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
2 |
3200 |
1600 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
2639 |
1320 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
2 |
2098 |
1049 |
PeerJ |
2 |
1862 |
931 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1278 |
1278 |
ASTES Journal |
1 |
256 |
256 |
Briefland |
1 |
966 |
966 |
International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) |
1 |
2710 |
2710 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1560 |
1560 |
IOS Press |
1 |
1275 |
1275 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1577 |
1577 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1278 |
1278 |
Longdom Group |
1 |
1424 |
1424 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
895 |
895 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
1 |
1300 |
1300 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
560 |
560 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
2486 |
2486 |
Springer Science + Business Media |
1 |
1425 |
1425 |
University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw |
1 |
300 |
300 |
Vasile Goldis Univ. Press |
1 |
100 |
100 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
Overview
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

25 Jan 2023
The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the 2022 period.
Contact person for the data set is Paolo Buoso.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 74 articles, total expenditure amounts to 164,586€ and the average fee is 2,224€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
28 |
57711 |
2061 |
Elsevier BV |
19 |
44703 |
2353 |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
20340 |
2542 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
13749 |
2750 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
3 |
6129 |
2043 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
3334 |
3334 |
Annex Publishers |
1 |
2773 |
2773 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1315 |
1315 |
Hikari, Ltd. |
1 |
200 |
200 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2595 |
2595 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
2898 |
2898 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
305 |
305 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1886 |
1886 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1403 |
1403 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
2440 |
2440 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
2806 |
2806 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
