The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has reported its APC expenditures for the 2018 and 2019 period.
Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology). TIB is operating the open access fund together with ZB MED (Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences) and ZBW (German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics).
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 358 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 529 676€ and the average fee is 1 480€.
To interpret the cost data correctly, please have a look at the funding policy of the Leibniz Association’s open access fund.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 76 | 124560 | 1639 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 62 | 91035 | 1468 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 61 | 99672 | 1634 |
| MDPI AG | 56 | 76896 | 1373 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 33 | 52484 | 1590 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 8 | 1160 | 145 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 9271 | 1324 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 10674 | 1779 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 9550 | 1592 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 5 | 7818 | 1564 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 4765 | 1191 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 4 | 5629 | 1407 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 4 | 2056 | 514 |
| BMJ | 3 | 5189 | 1730 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 4874 | 1625 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 3856 | 1285 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1606 | 803 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3367 | 1684 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 712 | 356 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1909 | 1909 |
| Firenze University Press | 1 | 214 | 214 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1450 | 1450 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 662 | 662 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1010 | 1010 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1687 | 1687 |
| Soil Science Society of America | 1 | 1856 | 1856 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 1 | 1585 | 1585 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
