PIK joins OpenAPC


We welcome the PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) as new contributing institution!

The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein already provides OpenAPC with APC data for the GFZ Potsdam and has now also reported data on APC expenditures at the PIK for the first time.

Contact person for both data sets is Roland Bertelmann.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 49 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 82 579€ and the average fee is 1 685€.

The following table and plots shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the PIK in 2018:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 19 33339 1755
IOP Publishing 10 15494 1549
Springer Nature 7 14482 2069
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 3753 1251
Elsevier BV 2 2533 1267
MDPI AG 2 2038 1019
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3110 1555
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3288 3288
Informa UK Limited 1 2150 2150
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1282 1282
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1110 1110

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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