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 Ruhr Universität Bochum 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 Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 305 articles (119 unrelated to any agreement, 186 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 749,072€ and the average fee is 2,456€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 94 | 227641 | 2422 |
| MDPI AG | 45 | 113692 | 2526 |
| Elsevier BV | 38 | 86491 | 2276 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 37 | 88585 | 2394 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 35 | 97836 | 2795 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 23896 | 2172 |
| BMJ | 9 | 22913 | 2546 |
| Informa UK Limited | 8 | 21503 | 2688 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 14951 | 2492 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 4 | 10601 | 2650 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5840 | 1947 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 5524 | 2762 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 4671 | 2335 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 2727 | 1364 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 5172 | 2586 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1430 | 1430 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2072 | 2072 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3894 | 3894 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 4203 | 4203 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 3892 | 3892 |
| Stellenbosch University | 1 | 464 | 464 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1074 | 1074 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Ruhr Universität Bochum now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
