The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has joined openapc.github.io and is sharing its expenditures for publications in both Open Access and toll-access journals.
Contact person is Dr.Dorothea Busjahn.
Cost data
Open Access
The data set covers publication fees for 23 Open Access journal articles paid in 2014. Total expenditure was 41 464€ and the average fee paid 1 220€.
Hybrid
In many toll-access journals some of the articles are open access after a fee has been paid. This model is often called “hybrid open access”. The dataset covers 11 hybrid open access articles. Total expenditure amounts to 20 054€. Average fee is 1 823.1€ and the median 1 382€.
Fees paid per publisher
Average costs per year
Average costs per publisher
