The Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period. The report also covered cost data on hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.
The IGB Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures and the IGB publishing fund established in 2018.
Contact Person is Dr. Thomas Gerdes.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 15 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 18 153€ and the average fee is 1 210€.
The following table shows the payments the IGB Library 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 | 4 | 4748 | 1187 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 3 | 4569 | 1523 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 1977 | 988 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 2468 | 1234 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2376 | 1188 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1173 | 1173 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 843 | 843 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IGB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
