Leibniz Association's open access fund reports 2021 APC expenditures
29 Mar 2022The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has reported its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology).
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 183 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 287 048€ and the average fee is 1 569€.
To interpret the cost data correctly, please have a look at the funding policy of the Leibniz Association’s open access fund.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 82 | 134189 | 1636 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 21 | 40411 | 1924 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 20 | 30364 | 1518 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 11768 | 1471 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 7086 | 1181 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 4 | 7231 | 1808 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5777 | 1926 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5794 | 1931 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 3304 | 1101 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3004 | 1502 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3953 | 1977 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 1886 | 943 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 599 | 299 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3937 | 1968 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3903 | 1952 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2624 | 1312 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 2 | 2618 | 1309 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 743 | 743 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1969 | 1969 |
| Brill | 1 | 452 | 452 |
| Estonian University of Life Sciences | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Institute of Rural Health | 1 | 806 | 806 |
| Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1291 | 1291 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2030 | 2030 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1189 | 1189 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1868 | 1868 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 935 | 935 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 714 | 714 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
