The IPN (Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.
The IPN Library manages the Institute’s Open Access publication fund which pays APCs for articles published by IPN scientists.
In addition, the IPN Library has also reported cost data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.
Contact Person is Barbara Senkbeil-Stoffels.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 24 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 50 656€ and the average fee is 2 111€.
The following table shows the payments the IPN has made to publishers in 2019. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 6 | 13775 | 2296 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 17949 | 2991 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 4344 | 1448 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 2 | 4913 | 2456 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 442 | 442 |
| Ernst Reinhardt, GmbH & Co. KG | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 2231 | 2231 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2874 | 2874 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1493 | 1493 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 428 | 428 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1077 | 1077 |
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)
