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 UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Paul Meißner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 175 articles, total expenditure amounts to 370 966€ and the average fee is 2 120€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements 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 reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 41 | 112555 | 2745 |
| MDPI AG | 25 | 49539 | 1982 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 22 | 48865 | 2221 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 21 | 36163 | 1722 |
| Springer Nature | 19 | 38952 | 2050 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 15 | 21259 | 1417 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 9855 | 2464 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 10654 | 2664 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 6000 | 2000 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 8855 | 2952 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5006 | 1669 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5754 | 1918 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 5314 | 1771 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 4915 | 1638 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3327 | 1664 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 1975 | 1975 |
| Research Desk Inc | 1 | 678 | 678 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 913 | 913 |
| Royan Institute | 1 | 388 | 388 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the UFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
