The IPN (Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 and 2018 periods.
The IPN Library manages the Institute’s Open Access publication fund which pays APCs for articles published by IPN scientists.
Contact Person is Barbara Senkbeil-Stoffels.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 41 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 79 859€ and the average fee is 1 948€.
The following table shows the payments the IPN has made to publishers in 2017 and 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 12 | 20588 | 1716 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 17065 | 2438 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 4 | 10056 | 2514 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 10858 | 2715 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 6246 | 2082 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 3193 | 1597 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 1741 | 871 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2854 | 1427 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1048 | 1048 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2320 | 2320 |
| Modestum Limited | 1 | 1092 | 1092 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| Ernst Reinhardt, GmbH & Co. KG | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IPN now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
