FWF reports data on APCs, BPCs and transformative agreements for 2021

The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on APC and BPC expenditures as well as articles published under transformative agreements.

Contact person is Katharina Rieck.

Cost Data

The new data set covers APCs for 804 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,725,780€ and the average fee is 2,146€. In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources.

The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures. Reported cost data on BPCs is not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.

Data on transformative agreements can be found either in the OpenAPC TA Treemap (articles only) or the Combined Treemap (includes calculated cost data for agreements).

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

LMU München reports 2021 data

The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period on APCs and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.

The University Library of the LMU provides institutional funding and discounts for selected Open Access publications and has reported those expenditures to OpenAPC.

Contact person is Andrea Dorner.

Cost data

The recent contribution covers publication fees for 308 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 644 778€ and the average fee is 2 093€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements.

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the LMU now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

University of Erfurt updates its APC and BPC expenditures

The University of Erfurt has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs for the 2021 period as well as on BPCs for 2019 -2021.

Erfurt University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the German state of Thüringen (TMWWDG).

Contact person is Martina Schlütter.

Cost Data

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 14 articles, total expenditure amounts to 29 247€ and the average fee is 2 089€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Erfurt now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)