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 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person for the Charité data is Dr. phil. Marcel Wrzesinski.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 436 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,108,405€ and the average fee is 2,542€. 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 | 177 | 405346 | 2290 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 97 | 305884 | 3153 |
| MDPI AG | 79 | 187006 | 2367 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 34 | 92135 | 2710 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 18 | 43829 | 2435 |
| Elsevier BV | 8 | 20206 | 2526 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 6046 | 1209 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 7086 | 2362 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 8848 | 2949 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 9886 | 4943 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 2 | 3027 | 1513 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 3376 | 3376 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4570 | 4570 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 1556 | 1556 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2237 | 2237 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2353 | 2353 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1862 | 1862 |
| Tsinghua University Press | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 2 publications. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for these 2 articles:
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Charité now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
