The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has reported its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology).
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 183 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 287 048€ and the average fee is 1 569€.
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 | 82 | 134189 | 1636 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 21 | 40411 | 1924 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 20 | 30364 | 1518 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 11768 | 1471 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 7086 | 1181 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 4 | 7231 | 1808 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5777 | 1926 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5794 | 1931 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 3304 | 1101 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3004 | 1502 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3953 | 1977 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 1886 | 943 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 599 | 299 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3937 | 1968 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3903 | 1952 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2624 | 1312 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 2 | 2618 | 1309 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 743 | 743 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1969 | 1969 |
| Brill | 1 | 452 | 452 |
| Estonian University of Life Sciences | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Institute of Rural Health | 1 | 806 | 806 |
| Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1291 | 1291 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2030 | 2030 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1189 | 1189 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1868 | 1868 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 935 | 935 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 714 | 714 |
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)
