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 Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person for Bochum is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 258 articles, total expenditure amounts to 621,627€ and the average fee is 2,409€. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 63 | 163298 | 2592 |
| MDPI AG | 54 | 122636 | 2271 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 51 | 139466 | 2735 |
| Elsevier BV | 17 | 44061 | 2592 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 17 | 34827 | 2049 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 16 | 40051 | 2503 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 7 | 13689 | 1956 |
| BMJ | 4 | 9619 | 2405 |
| Stellenbosch University | 3 | 1535 | 512 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4522 | 2261 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 1542 | 771 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2300 | 1150 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 5660 | 2830 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 4633 | 2316 |
| University of California Press | 2 | 2101 | 1051 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 3074 | 3074 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2130 | 2130 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3014 | 3014 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 3303 | 3303 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1690 | 1690 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1961 | 1961 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2199 | 2199 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2087 | 2087 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3910 | 3910 |
| OAPublishing Collective | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 3898 | 3898 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1390 | 1390 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1714 | 1714 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 618 | 618 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bochum now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
