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 Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person for the KU data is Carola Bauch-Schuster.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 17 articles, total expenditure amounts to 35,554€ and the average fee is 2,091€. 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. BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset and are not listed here either.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 4 | 7451 | 1863 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 3 | 8179 | 2726 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 5091 | 2545 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 5037 | 2518 |
| Schweizerbart | 2 | 1642 | 821 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2137 | 2137 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2907 | 2907 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 2099 | 2099 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 4 publications. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for these 4 articles, grouped by publishers:
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
