The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has updated its APC expenditures for the 2017 period.
Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology). TIB is operating the open access fund together with ZB MED (Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences) and ZBW (German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics).
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 131 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 197 254€ and the average fee is 1 506€.
To interpret the cost data correctly, please have a look at the funding policy of the Leibniz Association’s open access fund.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 38 | 60711 | 1598 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 20 | 30231 | 1512 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 16 | 30286 | 1893 |
| MDPI AG | 15 | 18291 | 1219 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 12 | 15446 | 1287 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 10687 | 1527 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 6962 | 1740 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 6679 | 1670 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 1567 | 522 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 3563 | 1782 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2423 | 1211 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1416 | 1416 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1726 | 1726 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 196 | 196 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 1606 | 1606 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1715 | 1715 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1714 | 1714 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 487 | 487 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
