The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its expenditures, providing data on APCs, BPCs and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature for the 2023-2024 period.
The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact Person is Jakob Jung.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 834 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2 134 266€ and the average fee is 2 559€. 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 | 218 | 587795 | 2696 |
| MDPI AG | 151 | 350522 | 2321 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 88 | 243423 | 2766 |
| Elsevier BV | 57 | 168151 | 2950 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 44 | 97494 | 2216 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 39 | 131123 | 3362 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 25 | 60102 | 2404 |
| Informa UK Limited | 20 | 60236 | 3012 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 19 | 38538 | 2028 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 15 | 38150 | 2543 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 11 | 37493 | 3408 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 10 | 28220 | 2822 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 8 | 16420 | 2053 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 6 | 3900 | 650 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 9076 | 1513 |
| BMJ | 5 | 14371 | 2874 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 4 | 11284 | 2821 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 4 | 10458 | 2614 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 4 | 7728 | 1932 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 4 | 10554 | 2638 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 4 | 8638 | 2159 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 4 | 4736 | 1184 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 6600 | 2200 |
| American Physiological Society | 3 | 7139 | 2380 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 7155 | 2385 |
| American Society of Hematology | 3 | 9651 | 3217 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 3 | 10182 | 3394 |
| German Medical Science | 3 | 2000 | 667 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 6839 | 2280 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 3240 | 1080 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 | 14376 | 4792 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 6610 | 2203 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 6065 | 3033 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 6650 | 3325 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 5283 | 2642 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 2 | 4762 | 2381 |
| IMR Press | 2 | 3564 | 1782 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 2706 | 1353 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 3500 | 1750 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 5120 | 2560 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 3200 | 1600 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 2 | 1666 | 833 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1566 | 1566 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 2666 | 2666 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 1086 | 1086 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1431 | 1431 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 5022 | 5022 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
| Biology Centre, AS CR | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 1105 | 1105 |
| California Digital Library (CDL) | 1 | 547 | 547 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 6044 | 6044 |
| DiGZ. Digitalen Zugang zu Wissen demokratisch gestalten e.V. | 1 | 1100 | 1100 |
| Emerald | 1 | 4035 | 4035 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 649 | 649 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1514 | 1514 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 3040 | 3040 |
| GigaScience Press | 1 | 443 | 443 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 1 | 3014 | 3014 |
| Institute of Experimental Botany | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1220 | 1220 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 3261 | 3261 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3920 | 3920 |
| Liverpool University Press | 1 | 2068 | 2068 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2195 | 2195 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2889 | 2889 |
| MIT Press | 1 | 1728 | 1728 |
| Modestum Limited | 1 | 1160 | 1160 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 4332 | 4332 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 550 | 550 |
| Radcliffe Medical Media Ltd | 1 | 1046 | 1046 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 5710 | 5710 |
| Royal College of General Practitioners | 1 | 1393 | 1393 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 337 | 337 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 1631 | 1631 |
| Society of Nuclear Medicine | 1 | 493 | 493 |
| Stockholm University Press | 1 | 640 | 640 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 5260 | 5260 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 2142 | 2142 |
| Verduci | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 2 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 Frankfurt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
