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 University of Potsdam 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 Heike Stadler.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 143 articles (97 unrelated to any agreement, 46 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 361,690€ and the average fee is 2,529€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 26 | 65271 | 2510 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 23 | 76077 | 3308 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 17 | 28037 | 1649 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 12 | 27865 | 2322 |
| MDPI AG | 11 | 27208 | 2473 |
| Elsevier BV | 10 | 31499 | 3150 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 6 | 11306 | 1884 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 13866 | 2773 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 15258 | 3814 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 10923 | 3641 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 9036 | 3012 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 3392 | 1130 |
| Emerald | 2 | 4833 | 2416 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2691 | 1345 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 4695 | 2348 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3713 | 1856 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 1644 | 1644 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2274 | 2274 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| GITO mbH Verlag | 1 | 940 | 940 |
| IGI Global Scientific Publishing | 1 | 2257 | 2257 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2342 | 2342 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 4020 | 4020 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 848 | 848 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 5934 | 5934 |
| Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | 1 | 3700 | 3700 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH | 1 | 599 | 599 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Potsdam now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
