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 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person for the data set is Paul Meißner.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 149 articles (146 unrelated to any agreement, 3 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 317,014€ and the average fee is 2,128€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 27 | 66223 | 2453 |
| Springer Nature | 24 | 57801 | 2408 |
| MDPI AG | 20 | 43804 | 2190 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 14 | 25064 | 1790 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 12 | 24174 | 2014 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 11 | 19992 | 1817 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 10 | 13180 | 1318 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 13986 | 2331 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 11131 | 2226 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 13316 | 3329 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 1652 | 826 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1458 | 729 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 2 | 1792 | 896 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 6719 | 3359 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3541 | 3541 |
| Czech Botanical Society | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 3170 | 3170 |
| International Commission for Plant Pollinator Relations | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 1975 | 1975 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1475 | 1475 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 3272 | 3272 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2040 | 2040 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
