University of Hannover 2022 data integrated

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 Leibniz Universität Hannover had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

Leibniz Universität operates an Open Access publishing fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact persons is Jessica Michel.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 160 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 305 259€ and the average fee is 1 908€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 83 143426 1728
Springer Nature 19 40887 2152
Frontiers Media SA 16 46232 2890
Copernicus GmbH 9 15236 1693
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 13223 1889
Wiley-Blackwell 7 16499 2357
Elsevier BV 4 6307 1577
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5732 1911
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 2814 1407
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1785 892
AIP Publishing 1 1699 1699
American Society for Horticultural Science 1 2079 2079
American Society for Microbiology 1 2017 2017
Informa UK Limited 1 1004 1004
Optica Publishing Group 1 1928 1928
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1261 1261
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1926 1926
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 1204 1204

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Universität Hannover now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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