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 Mannheim 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 Philipp Zumstein.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 22 articles (22 unrelated to any agreement, 0 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 36,861€ and the average fee is 1,676€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 7 | 10351 | 1479 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 4989 | 998 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 2 | 6599 | 3299 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 2 | 4777 | 2388 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1254 | 627 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1595 | 1595 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 4527 | 4527 |
| Society for Sociological Science | 1 | 971 | 971 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1798 | 1798 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Mannheim now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
