Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) provides institutional funding for Open Access publications for researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Society. MPDL makes use of central agreements with Open Access publishers. It has now updated expenditures for Open Access articles in Springer Science + Business Media journals.
Please note that article processing charges funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of this data set. The Max Planck Society has a limited input tax reduction. The refund of input VAT for APC is 20%.
Cost data
The data set covers publication fees for 438 articles published in Springer journals by MPG researchers, which MPDL covered from 2007 until 2014. Total expenditure amounts to 527 488€ and the average fee is 1 204€.
The following table shows the distribution over Springer journal titles.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Average Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMC Genomics | 65 | 81647 | 1256 |
| BMC Bioinformatics | 55 | 67292 | 1223 |
| BMC Evolutionary Biology | 40 | 48853 | 1221 |
| BMC Plant Biology | 33 | 44499 | 1348 |
| BMC Systems Biology | 16 | 19476 | 1217 |
| BMC Neuroscience | 16 | 19603 | 1225 |
| BMC Research Notes | 15 | 9898 | 660 |
| Frontiers in Zoology | 14 | 18805 | 1343 |
| BMC Microbiology | 11 | 15100 | 1373 |
| Algorithms for Molecular Biology | 10 | 10775 | 1077 |
| Plant Methods | 9 | 8671 | 963 |
| BMC Ecology | 9 | 10693 | 1188 |
| BMC Biology | 9 | 12923 | 1436 |
| Proteome Science | 8 | 8886 | 1111 |
| Molecular Cancer | 6 | 6960 | 1160 |
| BMC Developmental Biology | 6 | 7436 | 1239 |
| BMC Biotechnology | 6 | 7936 | 1323 |
| Chemistry Central Journal | 5 | 3768 | 754 |
| BMC Molecular Biology | 5 | 6072 | 1214 |
| PMC Biophysics | 4 | 3410 | 852 |
| Cell Communication and Signaling | 4 | 4903 | 1226 |
| Carbon Balance and Management | 4 | 4488 | 1122 |
| BMC Structural Biology | 4 | 4663 | 1166 |
| BMC Medical Genomics | 4 | 4852 | 1213 |
| BMC Cell Biology | 4 | 4709 | 1177 |
| Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling | 3 | 3797 | 1266 |
| Neural Development | 3 | 4401 | 1467 |
| Nanoscale Research Letters | 3 | 2396 | 799 |
| BMC Psychiatry | 3 | 3792 | 1264 |
| BMC Genetics | 3 | 3557 | 1186 |
| BMC Cancer | 3 | 3391 | 1130 |
| SpringerPlus | 2 | 1567 | 783 |
| Retrovirology | 2 | 2438 | 1219 |
| Parasites & Vectors | 2 | 2488 | 1244 |
| Movement Ecology | 2 | 2894 | 1447 |
| Molecular Brain | 2 | 2253 | 1127 |
| Microbial Cell Factories | 2 | 2484 | 1242 |
| Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation | 2 | 2244 | 1122 |
| EvoDevo | 2 | 3212 | 1606 |
| Epigenetics & Chromatin | 2 | 2880 | 1440 |
| BMC Medicine | 2 | 2967 | 1483 |
| BMC Medical Genetics | 2 | 2428 | 1214 |
| BMC Immunology | 2 | 2184 | 1092 |
| BMC Biophysics | 2 | 2765 | 1382 |
| Biology Direct | 2 | 2495 | 1247 |
| Biointerphases | 2 | 1475 | 737 |
| BioData Mining | 2 | 1949 | 975 |
| The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience | 1 | 968 | 968 |
| Skeletal Muscle | 1 | 1769 | 1769 |
| Respiratory Research | 1 | 1548 | 1548 |
| Population Health Metrics | 1 | 1087 | 1087 |
| PathoGenetics | 1 | 1295 | 1295 |
| Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases | 1 | 1613 | 1613 |
| Optical Nanoscopy | 1 | 737 | 737 |
| Neural Systems & Circuits | 1 | 1355 | 1355 |
| Molecular Pain | 1 | 1405 | 1405 |
| Microbial Informatics and Experimentation | 1 | 1046 | 1046 |
| Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance | 1 | 1074 | 1074 |
| Journal of Biomedical Semantics | 1 | 954 | 954 |
| Journal of Biology | 1 | 1728 | 1728 |
| Journal of Biological Engineering | 1 | 1263 | 1263 |
| Investigative Genetics | 1 | 1769 | 1769 |
| International Archives of Medicine | 1 | 1083 | 1083 |
| In Silico Pharmacology | 1 | 922 | 922 |
| Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | 1 | 1493 | 1493 |
| EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing | 1 | 968 | 968 |
| EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation | 1 | 922 | 922 |
| Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling | 1 | 774 | 774 |
| BMC Pharmacology | 1 | 1078 | 1078 |
| BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | 1 | 1212 | 1212 |
| BMC Biochemistry | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| AIDS Research and Therapy | 1 | 1087 | 1087 |
| Acta Neuropathologica Communications | 1 | 963 | 963 |
Average costs per year (in EURO)
