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 Copernicus 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 464 articles published in Copernicus journals by MPG researchers, which MPDL covered from 2008 until 2014. Total expenditure amounts to 709 340€ and the average fee is 1 529€.
The following table shows the distribution over Copernicus journal titles.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Average Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions | 200 | 332331 | 1662 |
| Biogeosciences Discussions | 97 | 148835 | 1534 |
| Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions | 47 | 78930 | 1679 |
| Climate of the Past Discussions | 25 | 33137 | 1325 |
| Geoscientific Model Development Discussions | 20 | 30419 | 1521 |
| Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions | 16 | 20170 | 1261 |
| Annales Geophysicae | 16 | 17421 | 1089 |
| Ocean Science Discussions | 8 | 12237 | 1530 |
| Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics | 8 | 5667 | 708 |
| The Cryosphere Discussions | 5 | 7146 | 1429 |
| Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 4 | 5168 | 1292 |
| Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions | 4 | 3089 | 772 |
| Climate of the Past | 3 | 2729 | 910 |
| Biogeosciences | 2 | 3639 | 1820 |
| Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Discussions | 1 | 816 | 816 |
| Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions | 1 | 424 | 424 |
| Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 1 | 1493 | 1493 |
| Geoscientific Model Development | 1 | 1532 | 1532 |
| Earth System Science Data | 1 | 2056 | 2056 |
| Earth System Dynamics | 1 | 484 | 484 |
| Atmospheric Measurement Techniques | 1 | 1370 | 1370 |
| ASTRA Proceedings | 1 | 104 | 104 |
| Advances in Science and Research | 1 | 144 | 144 |
Average costs per year (in EURO)
