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 Duisburg-Essen had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact Person is Dr. Eike Spielberg.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 291 articles, total expenditure amounts to 631 056€ and the average fee is 2 169€. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 92 | 189098 | 2055 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 57 | 165356 | 2901 |
| Springer Nature | 57 | 118860 | 2085 |
| Elsevier BV | 14 | 28500 | 2036 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 13 | 32168 | 2474 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 6 | 8629 | 1438 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 9684 | 1614 |
| American Astronomical Society | 4 | 5799 | 1450 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 9742 | 2435 |
| OAPublishing Collective | 4 | 2800 | 700 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 3560 | 1187 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 8912 | 2971 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 6069 | 2023 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1012 | 506 |
| AME Publishing Company | 2 | 2542 | 1271 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 5192 | 2596 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3659 | 1830 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 2 | 1666 | 833 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1869 | 1869 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 2641 | 2641 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2945 | 2945 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1150 | 1150 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 960 | 960 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1586 | 1586 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1726 | 1726 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2856 | 2856 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1628 | 1628 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 696 | 696 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 2856 | 2856 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| Swansea University | 1 | 1601 | 1601 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2380 | 2380 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Duisburg-Essen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
