PDI reports its 2021 APC expenditures and DEAL data


The Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2021 period and articles published under the German DEAL agreement with Wiley in 2021.

Contact Person for the PDI data is Anne Timm.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 8 articles, total expenditure amounts to 26,395€ and the average fee is 3,299€. 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.

The following table provides an overview of the new data.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 2 6184 3092
AIP Publishing 1 2858 2858
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4572 4572
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 3958 3958
American Physical Society (APS) 1 3395 3395
Elsevier BV 1 3177 3177
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2250 2250

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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