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 Heidelberg University had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Dr. Georg Schwesinger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 639 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,780,008€ and the average fee is 2,786€. 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 data set 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 | 161 | 506334 | 3145 |
| MDPI AG | 122 | 277516 | 2275 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 108 | 314141 | 2909 |
| Elsevier BV | 51 | 138206 | 2710 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 36 | 85544 | 2376 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 19 | 57519 | 3027 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 19 | 50156 | 2640 |
| Informa UK Limited | 13 | 35115 | 2701 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 12 | 37729 | 3144 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 11 | 36718 | 3338 |
| BMJ | 10 | 25301 | 2530 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 9 | 37951 | 4217 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 7 | 24960 | 3566 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 12991 | 1856 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 | 25480 | 4247 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 5 | 13537 | 2707 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 8125 | 1625 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 5498 | 1833 |
| The Company of Biologists | 3 | 15234 | 5078 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4665 | 2332 |
| Anticancer Research USA Inc. | 2 | 1869 | 934 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 6529 | 3265 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 2 | 4765 | 2382 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 4751 | 2376 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 6783 | 3392 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 4760 | 2380 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 3388 | 3388 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3924 | 3924 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 3890 | 3890 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 885 | 885 |
| Brill | 1 | 2320 | 2320 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 589 | 589 |
| German Medical Science | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | 1 | 2350 | 2350 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2227 | 2227 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3731 | 3731 |
| Maad Rayan Publishing Company | 1 | 851 | 851 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 4744 | 4744 |
| MJS Publishing, Medical Journals Sweden AB | 1 | 1964 | 1964 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 238 | 238 |
| Quintessenz | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1294 | 1294 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2142 | 2142 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1006 | 1006 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 7 publications. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for these articles:
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
