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 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. 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 Stefanie Seeh.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 396 articles (396 unrelated to any agreement, 0 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 729,410€ and the average fee is 1,842€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 182 | 406278 | 2232 |
| Springer Nature | 61 | 107436 | 1761 |
| Elsevier BV | 56 | 96325 | 1720 |
| VDI Fachmedien GmbH and Co. KG | 45 | 20543 | 457 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 25126 | 2513 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 8 | 21230 | 2654 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 5870 | 839 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 6 | 12272 | 2045 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 5 | 8266 | 1653 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 5157 | 1719 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 1040 | 520 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 4284 | 2142 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1814 | 907 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 2582 | 2582 |
| BioResources | 1 | 864 | 864 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2110 | 2110 |
| Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1 | 688 | 688 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3349 | 3349 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2399 | 2399 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1776 | 1776 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
