The Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
Participating institutions may opt-in to provide their data to OpenAPC as well, now Jülich’s own expenditures for 2023 have been integrated via the same mechanism.
The Central Library(ZB) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich is responsible for the management of publication cost data.
Contact for the data set is the institution’s Publications team.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 315 articles, total expenditure amounts to 741 413€ and the average fee is 2 354€. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 76 | 218964 | 2881 |
| MDPI AG | 49 | 88407 | 1804 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 47 | 101440 | 2158 |
| Springer Nature | 37 | 93995 | 2540 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 23 | 49155 | 2137 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 22 | 39722 | 1806 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 15 | 45126 | 3008 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 13 | 33875 | 2606 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 8395 | 2099 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 7620 | 2540 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 6468 | 2156 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 2604 | 868 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 8402 | 4201 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 5592 | 2796 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 4220 | 2110 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 7076 | 3538 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2 | 909 | 455 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 2025 | 2025 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2168 | 2168 |
| Bio-Protocol, LLC | 1 | 1138 | 1138 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2424 | 2424 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2149 | 2149 |
| MIT Press | 1 | 1516 | 1516 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2220 | 2220 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1397 | 1397 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2405 | 2405 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 8 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 the FZJ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
