The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has provided us with data on APC expenditures for the 2018 period at the GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences).
Contact person is Roland Bertelmann.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 63 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 102 112€ and the average fee is 1 621€.
The following table shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the GFZ in 2018:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 35 | 40923 | 1169 |
| Springer Nature | 10 | 26086 | 2609 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 6 | 11788 | 1965 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 8252 | 1375 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 5574 | 2787 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2380 | 2380 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1156 | 1156 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 2166 | 2166 |
| Soil Science Society of America | 1 | 3788 | 3788 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the GFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
