The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has reported its APC expenditures for the 2023 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 72 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 108 454€ and the average fee is 1 506€.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 16 | 27160 | 1697 |
| MDPI AG | 15 | 26683 | 1779 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 21734 | 1672 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 5528 | 1106 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 3409 | 852 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 4 | 2720 | 680 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 3688 | 1229 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 2 | 637 | 319 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 3957 | 1978 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2017 | 2017 |
| International Food and Agribusiness Management Association | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1715 | 1715 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1271 | 1271 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1180 | 1180 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2142 | 2142 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1040 | 1040 |
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)
