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 Freiburg had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Claudia Mühl-Hermann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 494 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1 327 994€ and the average fee is 2 688€. 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 | 130 | 359405 | 2765 |
| MDPI AG | 103 | 239639 | 2327 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 64 | 193064 | 3017 |
| Elsevier BV | 53 | 157915 | 2980 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 33 | 78824 | 2389 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 15 | 48455 | 3230 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 8 | 32046 | 4006 |
| Informa UK Limited | 8 | 23020 | 2877 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 8 | 26715 | 3339 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 6 | 10823 | 1804 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 16693 | 2782 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 4 | 10654 | 2664 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 12749 | 3187 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 13775 | 4592 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 8783 | 2928 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 3 | 5241 | 1747 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 3 | 9194 | 3065 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 3 | 7357 | 2452 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 | 8811 | 2937 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 5086 | 1695 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 6546 | 3273 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 7835 | 3917 |
| Caltech Library | 2 | 581 | 290 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2304 | 1152 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 2 | 2003 | 1001 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1091 | 546 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1328 | 1328 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1618 | 1618 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 1076 | 1076 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 4888 | 4888 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 2041 | 2041 |
| BMJ | 1 | 6084 | 6084 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 858 | 858 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4570 | 4570 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1652 | 1652 |
| Korean Neuropsychiatric Association | 1 | 548 | 548 |
| Nomos Verlag | 1 | 2368 | 2368 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2334 | 2334 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 2921 | 2921 |
| Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) | 1 | 3294 | 3294 |
| Silesian University of Technology | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 357 | 357 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 16 publications. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for these 16 articles:
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
