JLU Gießen reports APC expenditures for 2021 and DEAL data for 2020
19 Jan 2022The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution mainly provides data on APCs for the 2021 period and articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature in 2020.
The JLU University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which was supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 315 articles, total expenditure amounts to 584 043€ and the average fee is 1 854€. 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 data set.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 106 | 195112 | 1841 |
| Springer Nature | 79 | 151497 | 1918 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 59 | 109617 | 1858 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 23274 | 1790 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 22002 | 2000 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 11440 | 1634 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 6 | 11076 | 1846 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 11186 | 1864 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 19172 | 3195 |
| AME Publishing Company | 3 | 4191 | 1397 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 286 | 143 |
| Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices | 2 | 1308 | 654 |
| Veterinary World | 2 | 960 | 480 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1537 | 1537 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4541 | 4541 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1044 | 1044 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1854 | 1854 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2001 | 2001 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2084 | 2084 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1027 | 1027 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 668 | 668 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 2101 | 2101 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1045 | 1045 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2098 | 2098 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 952 | 952 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
