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 Konstanz had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Andreas Kirchner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 101 articles, total expenditure amounts to 247,301€ and the average fee is 2,449€. 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 | 21 | 53499 | 2548 |
| MDPI AG | 16 | 27068 | 1692 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 36249 | 2788 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 18117 | 2013 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 6 | 18058 | 3010 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 18278 | 3656 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 12858 | 3214 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 6528 | 2176 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 13432 | 4477 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 6575 | 2192 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2 | 8330 | 4165 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 3232 | 1616 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 3268 | 1634 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1289 | 645 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1524 | 1524 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 3595 | 3595 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1160 | 1160 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3802 | 3802 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3811 | 3811 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 476 | 476 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2020 | 2020 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 621 | 621 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2380 | 2380 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Konstanz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
