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 Leuphana University of Lüneburg 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 Gesa Baron.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 31 articles (31 unrelated to any agreement, 0 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 63,231€ and the average fee is 2,040€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 6 | 13013 | 2169 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 7738 | 1935 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 4 | 6431 | 1608 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4440 | 1480 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 5216 | 1739 |
| BMJ | 2 | 9524 | 4762 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 2670 | 1335 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 4050 | 2025 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3139 | 3139 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 3350 | 3350 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1057 | 1057 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1353 | 1353 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leuphana University of Lüneburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
