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 RWTH Aachen 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 Corinna Mescherowsky.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 462 articles (185 unrelated to any agreement, 277 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 1,154,452€ and the average fee is 2,499€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 167 | 387898 | 2323 |
| MDPI AG | 132 | 351321 | 2662 |
| Elsevier BV | 50 | 98417 | 1968 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 50 | 154187 | 3084 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 27 | 76896 | 2848 |
| Informa UK Limited | 9 | 22192 | 2466 |
| SAGE Publications | 9 | 22600 | 2511 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 9198 | 1840 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3955 | 1977 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 2407 | 2407 |
| Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development | 1 | 181 | 181 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4166 | 4166 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 2125 | 2125 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 3861 | 3861 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2814 | 2814 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3725 | 3725 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 4274 | 4274 |
| Shastri Education Trust | 1 | 1519 | 1519 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 914 | 914 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RWTH Aachen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
