New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University using the openCost format.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person for the data set is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 829 articles (206 unrelated to any agreement, 623 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 896,871€ and the average fee is 1,082€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 268 | 189372 | 707 |
| Elsevier BV | 171 | 108371 | 634 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 164 | 40707 | 248 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 68 | 197778 | 2908 |
| MDPI AG | 39 | 108201 | 2774 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 16 | 53239 | 3327 |
| Informa UK Limited | 13 | 38129 | 2933 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 12 | 31363 | 2614 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 7 | 1740 | 249 |
| SAGE Publications | 7 | 18782 | 2683 |
| BMJ | 5 | 15718 | 3144 |
| The Company of Biologists | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 4 | 9108 | 2277 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 11970 | 3990 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 6290 | 2097 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 11444 | 3815 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 6927 | 2309 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 6552 | 2184 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 6963 | 3481 |
| German Medical Science | 2 | 845 | 422 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 647 | 324 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1972 | 986 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4738 | 4738 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3221 | 3221 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 3422 | 3422 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 1 | 2540 | 2540 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| Gavin Publishers | 1 | 1612 | 1612 |
| JoGH Ltd | 1 | 1323 | 1323 |
| Polish Society of Microbiologists | 1 | 1036 | 1036 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2981 | 2981 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2931 | 2931 |
| Waxmann Verlag | 1 | 595 | 595 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd | 1 | 4392 | 4392 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Bielefeld University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
