The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has reported its Gold APC expenditures for the 2017 to 2025 period.
MPDL provides institutional funding for Open Access publications for researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Society. MPDL makes use of central agreements with Open Access publishers.
Contact person is Ádám Dér.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 5,124 articles, total expenditure amounts to 12,393,352€ and the average fee is 2,419€.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 1724 | 5906540 | 3426 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 800 | 986403 | 1233 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 520 | 1001635 | 1926 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 488 | 1123855 | 2303 |
| MDPI AG | 410 | 701385 | 1711 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 318 | 877188 | 2758 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 250 | 644881 | 2580 |
| Elsevier BV | 177 | 418764 | 2366 |
| IOP Publishing | 125 | 177197 | 1418 |
| The Royal Society | 100 | 185483 | 1855 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 81 | 147296 | 1818 |
| PeerJ | 25 | 24994 | 1000 |
| AIP Publishing | 24 | 51789 | 2158 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 17 | 31438 | 1849 |
| Informa UK Limited | 16 | 33051 | 2066 |
| SAGE Publications | 12 | 11089 | 924 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 11 | 25450 | 2314 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 8 | 14159 | 1770 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 6 | 9162 | 1527 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 4 | 4661 | 1165 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 3 | 6829 | 2276 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 5265 | 2632 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1244 | 1244 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1843 | 1843 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1750 | 1750 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MPG now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
