New APC data harvested from Bielefeld University

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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RWTH joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano reports its 2022 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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