The GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has provided its APC expenditures for the 2019 period.
The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.
Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 53 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 100 867€ and the average fee is 1 903€.
The following table shows the payments the GEOMAR has made to publishers since its last contribution.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 64 | 100301 | 1567 |
| Springer Nature | 55 | 138547 | 2519 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 24 | 63823 | 2659 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 22 | 31320 | 1424 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 22 | 40164 | 1826 |
| MDPI AG | 19 | 27913 | 1469 |
| Elsevier BV | 13 | 32518 | 2501 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 9968 | 1424 |
| American Meteorological Society | 4 | 2860 | 715 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 4739 | 1580 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5365 | 1788 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 3 | 5000 | 1667 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 7977 | 2659 |
| REABIC | 3 | 2730 | 910 |
| AAAS | 2 | 8048 | 4024 |
| Geological Society of America | 2 | 3834 | 1917 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3652 | 1826 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3600 | 1800 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1915 | 958 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 4000 | 2000 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2215 | 2215 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2040 | 2040 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
