The IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) 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 IAB is a research institute and special office of the German Federal Employment Agency.
Contact person for the IAB data is Friedrich Riedel.
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 24 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 57,506€ and the average fee is 2,396€.
The following table shows the payments the IAB 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 16380 | 2730 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 5 | 11900 | 2380 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 11720 | 2930 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 6572 | 2191 |
| Springer Nature | 2 | 5617 | 2808 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 95 | 95 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2707 | 2707 |
| Swansea University | 1 | 1443 | 1443 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IAB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
