Leibniz Association's open access fund updates its 2016 APC data


The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has updated its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology. TIB is operating the open access fund together with ZB MED – Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences and ZBW – German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.

For 2016, the publishing fund is funded by resources from the strategy fund of the Leibniz Association Executive Board in the amount of 200,000 €.

Cost Data

The new dataset covers additional publication fees for 73 articles covered by the fund in 2016 YTD.

Please note that APCs exceeding 2,000 EUR are shared between the fund and the corresponding Leibniz institution and that this data set only covers payments made via the central open access publishing fund.

With the recent contribution included, total expenditure for the 2016 period amounts to 208 581€ and the average fee is 1 617€. The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 44 80490 1829
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 32 53990 1687
MDPI AG 10 9274 927
Frontiers Media SA 7 12165 1738
Wiley-Blackwell 6 9973 1662
Copernicus GmbH 4 4712 1178
IOP Publishing 3 5569 1856
AIP Publishing 2 2833 1417
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2 5590 2795
BMJ 2 5441 2720
Elsevier BV 2 2124 1062
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 231 116
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3963 1981
Pensoft Publishers 2 768 384
The Royal Society 2 3998 1999
Cogitatio 1 952 952
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1452 1452
Inter-Research Science Center 1 1606 1606
International Institute of Science, Technology and Education (IISTE) 1 173 173
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1454 1454
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 570 570
The Company of Biologists 1 1250 1250