GEOMAR 2022 APC data integrated
05 Jan 2024The 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 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.
Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 60 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 121 276€ and the average fee is 2 021€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 109 | 177976 | 1633 |
| Springer Nature | 92 | 243326 | 2645 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 72 | 126681 | 1759 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 48 | 129090 | 2689 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 36 | 76508 | 2125 |
| MDPI AG | 34 | 49145 | 1445 |
| Elsevier BV | 21 | 54008 | 2572 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 13686 | 1369 |
| American Meteorological Society | 6 | 4208 | 701 |
| REABIC | 6 | 6300 | 1050 |
| AAAS | 5 | 19548 | 3910 |
| The Royal Society | 5 | 10200 | 2040 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 6739 | 1685 |
| Geological Society of America | 4 | 6884 | 1721 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5365 | 1788 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 3 | 5000 | 1667 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 7977 | 2659 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 3000 | 1000 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 6000 | 2000 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3652 | 1826 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3600 | 1800 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Magnolia Press | 1 | 709 | 709 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2215 | 2215 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| Society of Economic Geologists | 1 | 2640 | 2640 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 3830 | 3830 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for GEOMAR now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
