The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2021 period.
The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2021. The new data also contains Gold OA articles published under the DEAL agreements and decentralized payments.
Contact Person is Roland Wagner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 482 articles, total expenditure amounts to 921 324€ and the average fee is 1 911€.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 136 | 233794 | 1719 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 117 | 218010 | 1863 |
| Springer Nature | 102 | 235324 | 2307 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 23 | 40003 | 1739 |
| Elsevier BV | 18 | 31404 | 1745 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 13 | 21653 | 1666 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 18633 | 1863 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 25719 | 2858 |
| BMJ | 8 | 17885 | 2236 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 12144 | 2024 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 5516 | 1379 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 9683 | 3228 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 7363 | 3681 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2576 | 1288 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3493 | 1747 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 2825 | 1413 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 5007 | 2504 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 4190 | 2095 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2234 | 1117 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 2 | 400 | 200 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2018 | 2018 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1852 | 1852 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 1637 | 1637 |
| California Digital Library (CDL) | 1 | 147 | 147 |
| Center for Transportation Studies | 1 | 987 | 987 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 1714 | 1714 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 451 | 451 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1956 | 1956 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2183 | 2183 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1362 | 1362 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 854 | 854 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Frankfurt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
