The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
When reporting their publication costs, the JGU Mainz had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact persons are Susanne Janning and Sascha Lauer.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 287 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 733 285€ and the average fee is 2 555€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set. BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC data set and are not listed here either.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 106 | 278154 | 2624 |
| MDPI AG | 61 | 128557 | 2107 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 38 | 109684 | 2886 |
| Elsevier BV | 19 | 65775 | 3462 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 14 | 31792 | 2271 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 13 | 25903 | 1992 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 12 | 44235 | 3686 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 9754 | 3251 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3103 | 1552 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4305 | 2152 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 6051 | 3025 |
| University of Uludag | 2 | 4522 | 2261 |
| AccScience Publishing | 1 | 1466 | 1466 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2741 | 2741 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1837 | 1837 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1288 | 1288 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2901 | 2901 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 2233 | 2233 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 693 | 693 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 714 | 714 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 1 | 1821 | 1821 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 524 | 524 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2125 | 2125 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
