10 Jan 2023
The University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
Würzburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Claudia Schober.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 307 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 639 189€ and the average fee is 2 082€.
The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
79 |
172083 |
2178 |
Springer Nature |
79 |
173766 |
2200 |
MDPI AG |
74 |
135808 |
1835 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
15 |
26576 |
1772 |
Elsevier BV |
14 |
35686 |
2549 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
17846 |
1983 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
8 |
19944 |
2493 |
SAGE Publications |
4 |
5938 |
1485 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
3 |
10571 |
3524 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
7082 |
2361 |
American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
4981 |
2491 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
1000 |
500 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
3872 |
1936 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1268 |
1268 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
2516 |
2516 |
EMBO |
1 |
4284 |
4284 |
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University |
1 |
747 |
747 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1101 |
1101 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
2324 |
2324 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
3198 |
3198 |
Oekom Publishers GmbH |
1 |
298 |
298 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
2201 |
2201 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
589 |
589 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
1 |
1346 |
1346 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
3570 |
3570 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
595 |
595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Würzburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

10 Jan 2023
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with one institution being included for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 1,191 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2,161,203€ and the average fee is 1,815€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Bourgogne
- CNRS
- Université de Lorraine
- Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III
- Sorbonne Université
- École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort - EnvA (new)
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
296 |
648268 |
2190 |
Frontiers Media SA |
131 |
234685 |
1791 |
MDPI AG |
109 |
124744 |
1144 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
98 |
147431 |
1504 |
Copernicus GmbH |
80 |
127979 |
1600 |
Elsevier BV |
77 |
205383 |
2667 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
50 |
99549 |
1991 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
43 |
79851 |
1857 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
25 |
40232 |
1609 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
24 |
49364 |
2057 |
IOP Publishing |
22 |
34931 |
1588 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
20 |
16851 |
843 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
16 |
33212 |
2076 |
Informa UK Limited |
15 |
18422 |
1228 |
AAAS |
13 |
40893 |
3146 |
IEEE |
12 |
16967 |
1414 |
American Society for Microbiology |
11 |
10619 |
965 |
EMBO |
7 |
24500 |
3500 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
7 |
20114 |
2873 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
7 |
4173 |
596 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
6 |
14115 |
2353 |
The Royal Society |
6 |
10990 |
1832 |
AIP Publishing |
5 |
5585 |
1117 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
5 |
8903 |
1781 |
American Society for Clinical Investigation |
5 |
14680 |
2936 |
Rockefeller University Press |
5 |
10840 |
2168 |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
4 |
11704 |
2926 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
4 |
6563 |
1641 |
PeerJ |
4 |
3047 |
762 |
American Meteorological Society |
3 |
2057 |
686 |
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) |
3 |
8699 |
2900 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
3 |
3980 |
1327 |
EDP Sciences |
3 |
1900 |
633 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
3 |
6240 |
2080 |
Open Library of the Humanities |
3 |
1051 |
350 |
Pensoft Publishers |
3 |
1467 |
489 |
Society for Neuroscience |
3 |
4906 |
1636 |
American Astronomical Society |
2 |
3492 |
1746 |
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) |
2 |
2305 |
1152 |
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. |
2 |
1361 |
680 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
2 |
2932 |
1466 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
2 |
235 |
118 |
Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
2 |
5085 |
2542 |
MedCrave Group, LLC |
2 |
710 |
355 |
Medical Journals Sweden AB |
2 |
1300 |
650 |
Optica Publishing Group |
2 |
3045 |
1523 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
2698 |
1349 |
Shared Science Publishers OG |
2 |
1445 |
722 |
The Electrochemical Society |
2 |
866 |
433 |
University of California Press |
2 |
2584 |
1292 |
American Diabetes Association |
1 |
1379 |
1379 |
American Mathematical Society (AMS) |
1 |
615 |
615 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
931 |
931 |
e-Century Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1566 |
1566 |
Elyns Publishing Group |
1 |
987 |
987 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
485 |
485 |
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) |
1 |
574 |
574 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
300 |
300 |
Fortune Journals |
1 |
748 |
748 |
Geological Society of America |
1 |
2025 |
2025 |
Geological Society of London |
1 |
2391 |
2391 |
IJEAS |
1 |
62 |
62 |
Inter-Research Science Center |
1 |
450 |
450 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2313 |
2313 |
JVE International Ltd. |
1 |
510 |
510 |
Medwin Publishers |
1 |
2599 |
2599 |
Microbiology Society |
1 |
2803 |
2803 |
MyJove Corporation |
1 |
1476 |
1476 |
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. |
1 |
965 |
965 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
1 |
1248 |
1248 |
Prime Scholars |
1 |
219 |
219 |
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) |
1 |
400 |
400 |
Research online Publishing |
1 |
98 |
98 |
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik |
1 |
100 |
100 |
Science Signpost Publishing |
1 |
405 |
405 |
Scientific Societies |
1 |
1160 |
1160 |
Spandidos Publications |
1 |
2500 |
2500 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
3000 |
3000 |
The Endocrine Society |
1 |
1060 |
1060 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
900 |
900 |
University of Uludag |
1 |
1500 |
1500 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1950 |
1950 |
Whioce Publishing Pte Ltd |
1 |
360 |
360 |
ZealPress |
1 |
174 |
174 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

03 Jan 2023
The Johannes Kepler University Linz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period.
The JKU library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing.
Contact Person is Susanne Luger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 81 articles, total expenditure amounts to 173,395€ and the average fee is 2,141€.
The following table shows the payments the JKU library has made to publishers in 2022 (including taxes and discounts).
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
48 |
90181 |
1879 |
Frontiers Media SA |
22 |
61555 |
2798 |
Springer Nature |
6 |
15324 |
2554 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1991 |
1991 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
744 |
744 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
636 |
636 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
805 |
805 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
2160 |
2160 |
Overview
The following plots provide a detailed overview of all data contributed by the University of Linz up to now:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
