Leibniz-IGB 2024 data integrated


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 IGB - Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries 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 Jana Rumler.

Cost data

The new data covers APCs for 19 articles (None unrelated to any agreement, 19 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 53,136€ and the average fee is 2,797€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 7 18639 2663
Elsevier BV 5 19889 3978
Wiley-Blackwell 5 10285 2057
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 4323 2161

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IGB - Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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