Heidelberg University 2022 data integrated
08 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 Heidelberg University had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The University Library Heidelberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Georg Schwesinger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 478 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,107,574€ and the average fee is 2,317€.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 178 | 414710 | 2330 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 125 | 309899 | 2479 |
| MDPI AG | 61 | 129648 | 2125 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 25 | 56082 | 2243 |
| BMJ | 18 | 36139 | 2008 |
| Elsevier BV | 18 | 33815 | 1879 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 41766 | 2784 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 9756 | 1951 |
| EMBO | 4 | 17993 | 4498 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 6056 | 1514 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 4744 | 2372 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 4629 | 2315 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 6169 | 3084 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 5605 | 2803 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3399 | 1699 |
| ALTEX Edition | 1 | 2380 | 2380 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1694 | 1694 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2190 | 2190 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 3370 | 3370 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| E.U. European Publishing | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2797 | 2797 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2174 | 2174 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2324 | 2324 |
| Maad Rayan Publishing Company | 1 | 877 | 877 |
| Medical Journals Sweden AB | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| Quintessence Publishing | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1742 | 1742 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
