University of Cologne joins OpenAPC
09 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 for the 2022 period, the University of Cologne had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the university participate in OpenAPC for the first time.
Contact person for Cologne is Inga Frieman.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by the University of Cologne covers publication fees for 133 articles, total expenditure amounts to 333,543€ and the average fee is 2,508€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 98 | 253410 | 2586 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 25644 | 2331 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 8 | 18364 | 2295 |
| MDPI AG | 5 | 7876 | 1575 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 6625 | 2208 |
| EMBO | 3 | 13709 | 4570 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3332 | 1666 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 369 | 369 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 2332 | 2332 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1882 | 1882 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
