German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) joins OpenAPC

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by DIfE covers publication fees for 22 articles, total expenditure amounts to 65,378€ and the average fee is 2,972€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 12 33892 2824
Springer Nature 5 15629 3126
Frontiers Media SA 3 9573 3191
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 3570 3570
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2713 2713

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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