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 Göttingen had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Astrid Orth.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 421 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 975,261€ and the average fee is 2,317€. Please note that BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset and are not listed here.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 94 | 199826 | 2126 |
| Springer Nature | 86 | 210917 | 2453 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 75 | 203540 | 2714 |
| Elsevier BV | 31 | 74648 | 2408 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 26 | 56648 | 2179 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 21 | 49432 | 2354 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 14 | 39023 | 2787 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 14140 | 1571 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 8 | 16007 | 2001 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 10749 | 2687 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 7979 | 1995 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 5403 | 1351 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 4 | 8544 | 2136 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 6208 | 1552 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 4578 | 1526 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4379 | 2190 |
| Anticancer Research USA Inc. | 2 | 2214 | 1107 |
| EMBO | 2 | 9234 | 4617 |
| German Medical Science | 2 | 1600 | 800 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 2 | 8373 | 4186 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 3363 | 1681 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 4764 | 2382 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 2807 | 2807 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 3384 | 3384 |
| E.U. European Publishing | 1 | 2618 | 2618 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1523 | 1523 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 2307 | 2307 |
| Heighten Science Publications Corporation | 1 | 946 | 946 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 1234 | 1234 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2503 | 2503 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1361 | 1361 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1332 | 1332 |
| MJS Publishing, Medical Journals Sweden AB | 1 | 2368 | 2368 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 785 | 785 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1091 | 1091 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1884 | 1884 |
| Spandidos Publications | 1 | 1059 | 1059 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 2192 | 2192 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 663 | 663 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1093 | 1093 |
| XMLink | 1 | 1113 | 1113 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 1 publication. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for this article:
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
