University of Potsdam 2022 APC data integrated


The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the University of Potsdam had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

Potsdam University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Heike Stadler.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 221 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 445 131€ and the average fee is 2 014€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 46 95820 2083
MDPI AG 46 83837 1823
Informa UK Limited 29 28683 989
Springer Nature 22 54519 2478
Elsevier BV 19 47102 2479
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 12150 2025
Wiley-Blackwell 6 12176 2029
American Physical Society (APS) 5 11634 2327
Copernicus GmbH 5 8512 1702
American Chemical Society (ACS) 4 15419 3855
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 4 8485 2121
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 5236 1745
IOP Publishing 3 5608 1869
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 9340 3113
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 8363 4182
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 595 298
AIP Publishing 1 4125 4125
American Society for Microbiology 1 4592 4592
American Speech Language Hearing Association 1 2435 2435
American Vacuum Society 1 3741 3741
DiGZ. Digitalen Zugang zu Wissen demokratisch gestalten e.V. 1 900 900
GeoScienceWorld 1 2500 2500
GITO mbH Verlag 1 583 583
International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) 1 714 714
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 3515 3515
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1 2142 2142
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 3500 3500
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. 1 416 416
The Royal Society 1 1714 1714
Universitaet Potsdam 1 2499 2499
University of Chicago Press 1 4124 4124
Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH 1 150 150

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Potsdam now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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