GFZ Potsdam 2022 APC data integrated
22 Dec 2023The 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 GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein manages and reports data on APC expenditures for the GFZ.
Contact person for the data set is Roland Bertelmann.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 67 articles, total expenditure amounts to 98 740€ and the average fee is 1 474€.
The following table shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the GFZ in 2022.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 17 | 20878 | 1228 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 23342 | 1556 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 16532 | 1653 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 15196 | 1520 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 6 | 11066 | 1844 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 3781 | 945 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1281 | 1281 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1142 | 1142 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| GeoScienceWorld | 1 | 1908 | 1908 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1614 | 1614 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the GFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
