Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education joins OpenAPC


We welcome the IPN (Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education) as new contributing institution! The IPN Library manages the Institute’s Open Access publication fund which pays APCs for articles published by IPN scientists.

Contact person is Alexandra Jobmann.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by the IPN contains information on publication fees paid in 2016 and 2017.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 26 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 57 512€ and the average fee is 2 212€.

The following table and plots show the payments the IPN Library has made to publishers in 2016 and 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 8 14664 1833
Informa UK Limited 5 12792 2558
Springer Nature 4 10472 2618
Wiley-Blackwell 4 12699 3175
American Physical Society (APS) 1 529 529
Frontiers Media SA 1 2621 2621
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 2975 2975
Look Academic Publishers 1 330 330
SAGE Publications 1 428 428

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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