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 Universität zu Köln 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 Inga Frieman.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 223 articles (223 unrelated to any agreement, 0 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 563,166€ and the average fee is 2,525€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 101 | 252910 | 2504 |
| Elsevier BV | 42 | 108321 | 2579 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 19 | 47739 | 2513 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 19634 | 2454 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 7 | 25903 | 3700 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 6 | 12137 | 2023 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 5 | 7116 | 1423 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 4 | 8112 | 2028 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 4 | 3427 | 857 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 10127 | 2532 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 13007 | 4336 |
| BMJ | 2 | 5572 | 2786 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 2 | 5807 | 2903 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 2 | 2330 | 1165 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1360 | 1360 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3795 | 3795 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 6020 | 6020 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1270 | 1270 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2725 | 2725 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 3640 | 3640 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2970 | 2970 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 1 | 2970 | 2970 |
| MIS Quarterly | 1 | 4970 | 4970 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 2358 | 2358 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2935 | 2935 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2850 | 2850 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 420 | 420 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2737 | 2737 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Universität zu Köln now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
