New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University. For the first time, the data has been transfered using the new openCost format.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 91 articles, total expenditure amounts to 253 214€ and the average fee is 2 783€. Please note that harvested BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC data set.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 20 | 61076 | 3054 |
| Springer Nature | 17 | 42764 | 2516 |
| MDPI AG | 11 | 28291 | 2572 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 36380 | 4042 |
| Elsevier BV | 8 | 15174 | 1897 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 17426 | 2178 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 11602 | 3868 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 5413 | 2706 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 4674 | 2337 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 3136 | 3136 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 4866 | 4866 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3221 | 3221 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 3422 | 3422 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1597 | 1597 |
| BMJ | 1 | 3390 | 3390 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2111 | 2111 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 647 | 647 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 3029 | 3029 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 603 | 603 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd | 1 | 4392 | 4392 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Bielefeld now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
