We welcome the Fraunhofer Society as new contributing institution!
Since 2017 the Fraunhofer publishing fund provides central funding for Gold OA publications, this data has now been made available to OpenAPC. Please note that this data set does not contain APCs funded locally by Fraunhofer institutes.
Contact Person is Stefanie Seeh.
Cost data
The initial dataset provided by the Fraunhofer Society covers publication fees for 41 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 55 525€ and the average fee is 1 354€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 12 | 17242 | 1437 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 11 | 18166 | 1651 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 8505 | 1063 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2671 | 1336 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 2784 | 1392 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1279 | 1279 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 669 | 669 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1346 | 1346 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 650 | 650 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 570 | 570 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1642 | 1642 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
