The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has reported its APC expenditures for the 2020 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 134 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 209 592€ and the average fee is 1 564€.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 35 | 54606 | 1560 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 27 | 41443 | 1535 |
| Springer Nature | 22 | 39022 | 1774 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 17 | 30104 | 1771 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 15418 | 1713 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 5403 | 1081 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 4 | 2537 | 634 |
| BMJ | 3 | 5424 | 1808 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 5496 | 1832 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2969 | 1485 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 549 | 549 |
| International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (IJABE) | 1 | 1533 | 1533 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 210 | 210 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 736 | 736 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1069 | 1069 |
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)
