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 GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 73 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 164 087€ and the average fee is 2 248€. 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.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 125 | 202504 | 1620 |
| Springer Nature | 110 | 297918 | 2708 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 91 | 172545 | 1896 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 60 | 151968 | 2533 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 38 | 79633 | 2096 |
| MDPI AG | 36 | 53259 | 1479 |
| Elsevier BV | 21 | 54008 | 2572 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 15616 | 1420 |
| AAAS | 6 | 23672 | 3945 |
| American Meteorological Society | 6 | 4208 | 701 |
| REABIC | 6 | 6300 | 1050 |
| The Royal Society | 5 | 10200 | 2040 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 6739 | 1685 |
| Geological Society of America | 4 | 6884 | 1721 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5365 | 1788 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 3 | 5000 | 1667 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 7977 | 2659 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 3000 | 1000 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 6000 | 2000 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3652 | 1826 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3600 | 1800 |
| Academic Journals | 1 | 506 | 506 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2426 | 2426 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Magnolia Press | 1 | 709 | 709 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2215 | 2215 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| Society of Economic Geologists | 1 | 2640 | 2640 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 3830 | 3830 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for GEOMAR now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
