IAB reports its 2019 APC expenditures

The IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period. The report also covered cost data on hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.

The IAB is a research institute and special office of the German Federal Employment Agency.

Contact person for the IAB data is Friedrich Riedel.

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 24 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 57,506€ and the average fee is 2,396€.

The following table shows the payments the IAB has made to publishers in 2019. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 16380 2730
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 5 11900 2380
Wiley-Blackwell 4 11720 2930
SAGE Publications 3 6572 2191
Springer Nature 2 5617 2808
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 95 95
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
Informa UK Limited 1 2707 2707
Swansea University 1 1443 1443

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IAB 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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