University of Würzburg reports its 2021 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 6 institutions

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Linz reports its 2022 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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