Having read Ross Mounce’s interesting article on wrongly paywalled Open Access articles in hybrid Elsevier journals, I came up with the idea of throwing a bit more data at the issue. We have a lot of those articles in our OpenAPC data collection (2630 articles in 670 different journals, to be precise), and since the contributing institutions reported their APC costs for all of them, we can be pretty confident that they were all paid for and none should be paywalled at the moment.

The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has updated the GFZ’s APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

We welcome Münster University as new contributing institution! Münster University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Bielefeld University has provided its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

We welcome the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as new contributing institution!

We welcome the Università degli Studi di Milano (University of Milan) as our first contributing institution from Italy!

We welcome the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo) as new contributing institution! The TiHo Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

We welcome the UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) as new contributing institution! The UFZ Library manages the institute’s expenditures for Open Access publishing.

The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2016 period.

We are happy to announce our first successful data ingestion via OAI-PMH. In a collaboration with Regensburg University Library our colleagues there managed to include the OpenAPC metadata directly into their institutional repository where it can be harvested using the OAI-PMH protocol. This will make submissions via mail or pull requests unnecessary for Regensburg in the future, as OpenAPC will actively harvest the data in regular intervals.