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 GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 94 articles, total expenditure amounts to 177 271€ and the average fee is 1 886€. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 22 | 23405 | 1064 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 25706 | 1714 |
| Elsevier BV | 14 | 40370 | 2884 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 22373 | 2237 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 15384 | 1923 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 7 | 12165 | 1738 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 10748 | 2687 |
| Seismological Society of America (SSA) | 3 | 4561 | 1520 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 6090 | 3045 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1146 | 573 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 2423 | 2423 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1111 | 1111 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 2378 | 2378 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 3029 | 3029 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1870 | 1870 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2180 | 2180 |
| Society of Economic Geologists | 1 | 2333 | 2333 |
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 GFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
