University of Frankfurt reports its 2020 Springer Nature DEAL data

The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer Nature DEAL contract in 2020.

The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Roland Wagner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 47 Gold OA articles, total expenditure amounts to 94 106€ and the average fee is 2 002€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that articles published in hybrid Springer Nature 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
Scientific Reports 23 39793 1730
Journal of Translational Medicine 3 6932 2311
Nature Communications 3 10092 3364
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2 3786 1893
Journal of Physiological Anthropology 2 3007 1503
Biotechnology for Biofuels 1 2125 2125
BMC Medical Education 1 1661 1661
BMC Medical Genetics 1 1477 1477
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 1 1847 1847
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology 1 1847 1847
Communications Biology 1 2953 2953
Communications Chemistry 1 2953 2953
Critical Care 1 2487 2487
Environmental Sciences Europe 1 2014 2014
Gut Pathogens 1 2014 2014
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 1 1893 1893
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 1 2014 2014
Parasites & Vectors 1 1847 1847
Translational Psychiatry 1 3364 3364

Overview

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