The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2021 period and articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature in 2019/2020.
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 76 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 129,311€ and the average fee is 1,701€.
The following table shows the payments the HZDR library has made to publishers in 2021. Please note that articles published in hybrid 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 | 38 | 56316 | 1482 |
| Springer Nature | 9 | 18273 | 2030 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 11420 | 1903 |
| AIP Publishing | 4 | 2800 | 700 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 10083 | 3361 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 3 | 6005 | 2002 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 4489 | 2244 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2922 | 1461 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3679 | 1839 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 1632 | 816 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2405 | 2405 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2818 | 2818 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 3095 | 3095 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1469 | 1469 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1905 | 1905 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HZDR now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
