Fraunhofer has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2019 and 2020 period.
Since 2017 the Fraunhofer Publishing Fund provides central funding for Gold OA publications, this data has now been made available to OpenAPC. Please note that this data set does not contain APCs funded locally by Fraunhofer institutes.
In addition, Fraunhofer has also reported cost data on hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.
Contact Person is Kakia Katsinika.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 257 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 375 629€ and the average fee is 1 462€.
The following table shows the payments the Fraunhofer Publishing Fund has made to publishers in 2019 and 2020. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 132 | 179944 | 1363 |
| Springer Nature | 37 | 63635 | 1720 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 14 | 23816 | 1701 |
| Elsevier BV | 12 | 16185 | 1349 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 12 | 27144 | 2262 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 12 | 20072 | 1673 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 6456 | 1291 |
| AIP Publishing | 4 | 7640 | 1910 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 2028 | 507 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 3372 | 843 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 4286 | 1429 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3154 | 1577 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2393 | 1196 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 2 | 1994 | 997 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 302 | 302 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1779 | 1779 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 549 | 549 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2262 | 2262 |
| Göller Verlag GmbH | 1 | 1092 | 1092 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 530 | 530 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1600 | 1600 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 942 | 942 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1687 | 1687 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1418 | 1418 |
| Slovenian Society for Stereology and Quantitative Image Analysis | 1 | 150 | 150 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Fraunhofer publishing fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
