18 May 2022
The University of Rostock has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 and 2021 period.
Rostock University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Steffen Malo.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 335 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 550 524€ and the average fee is 1 643€.
The following table shows the payments Rostock University Library has made to publishers in 2020 and 2021.
Publishers
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
243 |
345611 |
1422 |
Frontiers Media SA |
112 |
212590 |
1898 |
Springer Nature |
72 |
128622 |
1786 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
25 |
39855 |
1594 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
16 |
25585 |
1599 |
Elsevier BV |
14 |
16115 |
1151 |
Copernicus GmbH |
9 |
11871 |
1319 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
7 |
9523 |
1360 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
7 |
1516 |
217 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
6 |
5774 |
962 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
4 |
6315 |
1579 |
RonPub |
4 |
749 |
187 |
Informa UK Limited |
3 |
3154 |
1051 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
3 |
5035 |
1678 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
3948 |
1316 |
AME Publishing Company |
2 |
2828 |
1414 |
Bioflux |
2 |
371 |
186 |
Eurasian Society of Educational Research |
2 |
729 |
364 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
1788 |
894 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
2 |
3527 |
1764 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
2 |
1500 |
750 |
The Korean Society of Phycology |
2 |
789 |
395 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
1071 |
536 |
Aging and Disease |
1 |
1940 |
1940 |
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. |
1 |
549 |
549 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1244 |
1244 |
BMJ |
1 |
1875 |
1875 |
Brill |
1 |
1583 |
1583 |
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery |
1 |
1299 |
1299 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1994 |
1994 |
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1044 |
1044 |
David Publishing Company |
1 |
299 |
299 |
e-Century Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1770 |
1770 |
HARD Publishing Company |
1 |
982 |
982 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1181 |
1181 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
1 |
1519 |
1519 |
Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO Press) |
1 |
684 |
684 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
624 |
624 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
2015 |
2015 |
Sciaccess Publishers LLC |
1 |
1216 |
1216 |
Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd. |
1 |
1332 |
1332 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1428 |
1428 |
The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology |
1 |
620 |
620 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Rostock now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

17 May 2022
The VSB - Technical University of Ostrava has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The VSB Central Library collects data on institutional APCs expenditures and kindly provides that data to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Pavla Rygelová.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 94 articles, total expenditure amounts to 143,594€ and the average fee is 1,528€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
134 |
205750 |
1535 |
MM Publishing, s.r.o. |
27 |
12227 |
453 |
Elsevier BV |
18 |
39683 |
2205 |
Springer Nature |
10 |
19612 |
1961 |
Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem |
9 |
1383 |
154 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
9 |
3899 |
433 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
7 |
13946 |
1992 |
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Gabriel Borowski (WNGB) |
7 |
1634 |
233 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
4 |
8134 |
2033 |
ASTES Journal |
3 |
1399 |
466 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
6668 |
2223 |
TU Kosice |
3 |
605 |
202 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
9753 |
3251 |
Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
4445 |
2223 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
4486 |
2243 |
Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod |
2 |
975 |
488 |
Politechnika Koszalinska |
2 |
687 |
344 |
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt |
2 |
4249 |
2124 |
Asociatia Geograhia Technica |
1 |
174 |
174 |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
1 |
1302 |
1302 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1677 |
1677 |
Desalination Publications |
1 |
145 |
145 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
101 |
101 |
Estonian Academy Publishers |
1 |
605 |
605 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
795 |
795 |
Future Science, LTD |
1 |
1755 |
1755 |
Inderscience Publishers |
1 |
1108 |
1108 |
Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, AS CR |
1 |
391 |
391 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
230 |
230 |
Ital Publication |
1 |
381 |
381 |
KIPS-CSWRG |
1 |
3121 |
3121 |
Longdom Group |
1 |
1838 |
1838 |
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine |
1 |
97 |
97 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1716 |
1716 |
Polish Academy of Sciences |
1 |
302 |
302 |
Polskie Naukowo-Techniczne Towarzystwo Eksploatacyjne |
1 |
496 |
496 |
Polskie Towarzystwo Przeróbki Kopalin |
1 |
468 |
468 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1386 |
1386 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
888 |
888 |
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd. |
1 |
605 |
605 |
Versita, Warsaw |
1 |
302 |
302 |
Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT, sp. z.o.o. |
1 |
363 |
363 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ostrava now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

16 May 2022
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 5 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 103 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 150,242€ and the average fee is 1,459€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- IMT Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire
- Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)
- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
- Université de La Rochelle
- Université de technologie de Troyes
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
56 |
79106 |
1413 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
14205 |
1776 |
IEEE |
5 |
6817 |
1363 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
5 |
8649 |
1730 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
7473 |
1495 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
5776 |
1444 |
Frontiers Media SA |
4 |
5943 |
1486 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3458 |
1729 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1040 |
1040 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
2200 |
2200 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
3058 |
3058 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
2233 |
2233 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
Hilaris |
1 |
852 |
852 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
41 |
41 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1125 |
1125 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
1424 |
1424 |
PeerJ |
1 |
923 |
923 |
Science Publishing Group |
1 |
816 |
816 |
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
1 |
1023 |
1023 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1080 |
1080 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1800 |
1800 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
