Tuebingen U 2024 data integrated


The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

Data from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen had not been part of the initial transfer, however, this collection has now been made available to OpenAPC retroactively.

Contact person for the data set is Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 522 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,399,393€ and the average fee is 2,681€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 109 250875 2302
Springer Nature 97 254169 2620
Frontiers Media SA 88 249756 2838
Elsevier BV 85 277271 3262
Oxford University Press (OUP) 22 63759 2898
Wiley-Blackwell 14 33883 2420
Informa UK Limited 10 27206 2721
American Chemical Society (ACS) 6 17430 2905
Copernicus GmbH 5 9933 1987
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 5 10246 2049
American Society for Microbiology 4 9102 2276
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 4 10998 2749
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 8061 2015
JMIR Publications Inc. 4 13979 3495
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 4 16719 4180
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 3 12324 4108
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 13469 4490
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 3 6160 2053
BMJ 3 6882 2294
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 3 6618 2206
IOP Publishing 3 5968 1989
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 12997 4332
SAGE Publications 3 3549 1183
American Psychological Association (APA) 2 4736 2368
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2 9930 4965
Cogitatio 2 2380 1190
Optica Publishing Group 2 5805 2902
Schweizerbart 2 4207 2104
The Royal Society 2 3228 1614
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2 1071 536
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1666 1666
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 2332 2332
American Meteorological Society 1 1039 1039
American Physiological Society 1 3866 3866
BioScientifica 1 1790 1790
Caltech Library 1 274 274
Duncker & Humblot GmbH 1 1605 1605
E.U. European Publishing 1 1785 1785
EMBO 1 4570 4570
German Medical Science 1 800 800
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2237 2237
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 2943 2943
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 1978 1978
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 2695 2695
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1387 1387
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2501 2501
Science and Education Publishing 1 536 536
Society for Neuroscience 1 3002 3002
Spandidos Publications 1 1726 1726
The Company of Biologists 1 4256 4256
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 1190 1190
University of California Press 1 1079 1079
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1428 1428

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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