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 14 articles covered by the fund in 2016.
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 242 308€ and the average fee is 1 694€. The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 46 | 83250 | 1810 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 32 | 53965 | 1686 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 18739 | 1874 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 9274 | 927 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 9973 | 1662 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 4712 | 1178 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 4 | 10204 | 2551 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 5306 | 1769 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 9301 | 3100 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 4667 | 1556 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5569 | 1856 |
| BMJ | 2 | 5441 | 2720 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 4869 | 2435 |
| 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 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 2073 | 2073 |
| 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 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 570 | 570 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
