New APC data harvested from Bielefeld University using the openCost data format

New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH. The data has been delivered in the openCost format for publication cost data.

Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Dirk Pieper.

Cost data

The data ingestion covers publication fees for 1,294 articles, replacing the old harvest data for Bielefeld University. Total expenditure amounts to 2 220 862€ and the average fee is 1 716€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 365 599209 1642
Frontiers Media SA 311 623571 2005
MDPI AG 262 449764 1717
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 134 203076 1515
Wiley-Blackwell 51 90324 1771
Informa UK Limited 26 41295 1588
American Society for Microbiology 14 11677 834
BMJ 11 24385 2217
Cogitatio 10 3360 336
Elsevier BV 10 19661 1966
Oxford University Press (OUP) 9 19556 2173
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 8 12294 1537
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 7 7721 1103
IOP Publishing 5 6444 1289
SAGE Publications 5 5755 1151
JMIR Publications Inc. 4 10964 2741
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 10382 3461
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 3263 1088
OMICS Publishing Group 3 4107 1369
Optica Publishing Group 3 6415 2138
PeerJ 3 3118 1039
Syncsci Publishing Pte., Ltd. 3 1807 602
The Royal Society 3 3823 1274
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 3 2258 753
AIP Publishing 2 2970 1485
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 2673 1336
American Physical Society (APS) 2 4231 2116
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 3879 1940
Copernicus GmbH 2 3641 1820
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 5653 2826
Eurasian Society of Educational Research 2 1245 622
Hogrefe Publishing Group 2 3480 1740
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2402 1201
University of Bern 2 785 392
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 3284 3284
Brill 1 744 744
Crimson Publishers 1 424 424
E.U. European Publishing 1 1184 1184
EMBO 1 4284 4284
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 530 530
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1732 1732
Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology 1 1026 1026
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2313 2313
MIT Press - Journals 1 845 845
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2045 2045
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 1011 1011
Science Publishing Group 1 1250 1250
Scientific & Academic Publishing 1 139 139
SEAS - Society for South East Asian Studies 1 714 714
The Company of Biologists 1 2380 2380
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 1 1531 1531
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 238 238

Overview

The overall APC data for Bielefeld 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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