New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Saarland University.
The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) decided to make data on APC expenditures directly available in their institutional repository, where it can be harvested by OpenAPC on a regular basis via OAI-PMH.
In addition, 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, Saarland University had agreed to share this data with OpenAPC as well. Since cost data on regular APCs had already been aggregated via the mentioned harvesting, OpenAPC only integrated data on hybrid DEAL articles.
Contact person is Ulrich Herb.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 71 articles, total expenditure amounts to 185,845€ and the average fee is 2,618€. 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.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 20 | 56268 | 2813 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 16 | 41021 | 2564 |
| Elsevier BV | 11 | 22666 | 2061 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 29850 | 2985 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 5694 | 2847 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 5934 | 2967 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 8816 | 4408 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 5543 | 2771 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2274 | 2274 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2317 | 2317 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2309 | 2309 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 536 | 536 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Saarland University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
