The Fraunhofer Society has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2018 period.
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 new dataset covers publication fees for 52 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 66 191€ and the average fee is 1 273€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 23 | 20311 | 883 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 12 | 19151 | 1596 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 5 | 7983 | 1597 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 7230 | 1446 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 3820 | 1273 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1890 | 1890 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 3093 | 3093 |
| MedCrave Group, LLC | 1 | 854 | 854 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1859 | 1859 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Fraunhofer publishing fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
