The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has provided us with data on APC expenditures for the 2019 period at the GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences).
Contact person is Roland Bertelmann.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 114 588€ and the average fee is 1 942€.
The following table shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the GFZ in 2019:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 19 | 31882 | 1678 |
| MDPI AG | 9 | 13022 | 1447 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 17756 | 2220 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 13639 | 4546 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 3 | 5132 | 1711 |
| Geological Society of America | 3 | 8024 | 2675 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 2502 | 1251 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3408 | 1704 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1608 | 1608 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 2111 | 2111 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1816 | 1816 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 2570 | 2570 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2856 | 2856 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1719 | 1719 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 2223 | 2223 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1761 | 1761 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the GFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
