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 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Tonka Stoyanova.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 367 articles, total expenditure amounts to 844 646€ and the average fee is 2 301€. 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 | 130 | 284827 | 2191 |
| Springer Nature | 99 | 231696 | 2340 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 32 | 89621 | 2801 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 29 | 76045 | 2622 |
| Elsevier BV | 17 | 39111 | 2301 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 6 | 11970 | 1995 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 6 | 13378 | 2230 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 10163 | 2033 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 8343 | 2086 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 4 | 10760 | 2690 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 10510 | 2627 |
| BMJ | 3 | 8657 | 2886 |
| OAPublishing Collective | 3 | 2100 | 700 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 5714 | 1905 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 4077 | 1359 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 5360 | 2680 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1964 | 982 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2190 | 2190 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2901 | 2901 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3004 | 3004 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 478 | 478 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2739 | 2739 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 764 | 764 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2922 | 2922 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2199 | 2199 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2041 | 2041 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 4127 | 4127 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2202 | 2202 |
| Pluto Journals | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1645 | 1645 |
| Verduci | 1 | 2142 | 2142 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
