Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf reports its 2020 APC expenditures


The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.

The HZDR Library manages the HZDR’s spending on OA journals.

Contact person is Edith Reschke.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 70 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 129,614€ and the average fee is 1,852€.

The following table shows the payments the HZDR library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 28 41616 1486
Springer Nature 14 34440 2460
Elsevier BV 6 12077 2013
Informa UK Limited 3 7460 2487
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 5337 1779
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 4479 1493
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5092 1697
AIP Publishing 2 5841 2920
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 2439 1219
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 2554 1277
IOP Publishing 2 3586 1793
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2900 2900
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1793 1793

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HZDR now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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