HS Aalen joins OpenAPC


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 Hochschule Aachen had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 12 articles, total expenditure amounts to 27,934€ and the average fee is 2,328€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 6 15741 2623
Frontiers Media SA 2 4528 2264
Springer Nature 2 4143 2071
EDP Sciences 1 1523 1523
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1999 1999

Overview

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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