Jisc Collections has been gathering and releasing data on APC payments made by UK higher education institutions (HEIs).

The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing all remaining data for the 2016 period.

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides additional articles both for the 2016 and 2017 periods.

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.

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!