The IPN (Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 and 2021 period.
The IPN Library manages the Institute’s Open Access publication fund which pays APCs for articles published by IPN scientists.
Contact Person is Barbara Senkbeil-Stoffels.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 76 articles, total expenditure amounts to 186 565€ and the average fee is 2 455€.
The following table shows the payments the IPN has made to publishers in 2020 and 2021:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 20 | 66807 | 3340 |
| Informa UK Limited | 14 | 34570 | 2469 |
| Elsevier BV | 10 | 20410 | 2041 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 17592 | 1955 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 24491 | 3499 |
| Ernst Reinhardt, GmbH & Co. KG | 3 | 3012 | 1004 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 3 | 4066 | 1355 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 4987 | 1662 |
| American Educational Research Association (AERA) | 2 | 2975 | 1487 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 1463 | 732 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 4048 | 2024 |
| American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | 1 | 2144 | 2144 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IPN now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
