The aim of this repository is:

• to release data sets on fees paid for Open Access journal articles and monographs by Universities and Research Society Funds under an Open Database License
• to demonstrate how reporting on fee-based Open Access publishing can be made more transparent and reproducible across institutions.

At the moment this project provides the following cost data:

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There are several options. You may simply download the the raw data sets in CSV format, query our OLAP server or use our Treemap site for visual data exploration.

Any academic institution or research funder paying for Article Process Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs) can contribute to OpenAPC, no formal registration is required. This page (German version) explains the details.

So far, the following German universities have agreed to share information on paid author processing charges (APC):

• Bayreuth University
• Bielefeld University
• Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Clausthal University of Technology
• Freie Universität Berlin
• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
• Hamburg University of Technology
• Heidelberg University
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Leipzig University
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Münster University
• JGU Mainz
• JLU Giessen
• Osnabrück University
• Ruhr Universität Bochum
• Saarland University
• Technische Hochschule Wildau
• Technische Universität Berlin
• Technische Universität Braunschweig
• Technische Universität Chemnitz
• Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Technische Universität Dortmund
• Technische Universität Dresden
• Technische Universität Ilmenau
• Technische Universität München
• University of Bamberg
• University of Bremen
• University of Duisburg-Essen
• University of Freiburg
• University of Göttingen
• University of Greifswald
• University of Kassel
• University of Konstanz
• University of Mannheim
• University of Oldenburg
• University of Passau
• University of Potsdam
• University of Regensburg
• University of Rostock
• University of Siegen
• University of Stuttgart
• University of Trier
• University of Tübingen
• University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo)
• University of Würzburg
• Ulm University

• Fraunhofer Publishing Fund

• DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
• Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
• GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (data provided by the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein)
• KIT Karlsruhe
• Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)

• GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
• IGB - Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
• INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials
• IPN - Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
• Leibniz Association's Open Access Publishing Fund
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (data provided by the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein)
• Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) - German National Library of Science and Technology
• WIAS - Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics

• Max Planck Digital Library

The data content covers APCs as paid for by the central budget for the Max Planck Society (MPS). APCs funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of the data. The MPS has a limited input tax reduction. The refund of input VAT for APC is 20%. Until the end of 2007 the MPS was VAT exempt.

• Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB)
• Knowledge Unlatched

• FWF - Austrian Science Fund
• Institute of Science and Technology Austria
• University of Salzburg
• Technische Universität Wien

• SNSF - Swiss National Science Foundation
• Bern University of Applied Sciences

• Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Università degli Studi di Milano

• Akershus University Hospital
• BI Norwegian Business School
• Bergen University College
• Fridtjof Nansen Institute
• GenØk - Centre for Biosafety
• Harstad University College
• Innlandet Hospital Trust
• Institute of Marine Research
• Molde University College
• NILU - Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
• Nord University
• Norwegian Center for Studies on Violence and Traumatic Stress
• Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research
• Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
• Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• Norwegian Institute of Water Research
• Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
• Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Oslo University Hospital
• Oslo and Akershus university college
• SINTEF (Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research)
• Sørlandet Hospital Trust
• Uni Research
• University College of Southeast Norway
• University of Agder
• University of Bergen
• University of Oslo
• University of Stavanger
• University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
• Vestfold Hospital Trust
• Vestre Viken Hospital Trust

• Universitat de Barcelona

• Chalmers University of Technology
• Dalarna University
• Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
• University of Gothenburg
• University of Borås
• University of Skövde
• University West
• Karlstad University
• Karolinska Institutet
• KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Linköping University
• Linnaeus University
• Luleå University of Technology
• Lund University
• Malmö University
• Mälardalen University
• Örebro University
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Södertörns University
• Stockholm School of Economics
• Stockholm University
• Umeå University
• Uppsala University

• Hanken School of Economics
• Laurea University of Applied Sciences
• Tampere University
• University of Eastern Finland
• University of Jyväskylä
• University of Turku

The Couperin consortium aggregates data on APC expenditures made by institutions in France:

• Aix-Marseille Université
• Université d'Angers
• Université de Bordeaux
• Université de Bourgogne
• Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
• Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
• Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
• École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
• Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Université Grenoble Alpes
• Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
• Institut français des sciences et technologies des transports, de l'aménagement et des réseaux (IFSTTAR)
• Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA)
• Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)
• Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)
• Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM)
• Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT)
• Institut Pasteur
• MINES ParisTech
• Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
• Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
• Université de Caen Normandie
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
• Université Clermont Auvergne
• Université Technologique de Compiègne
• Université Evry Val-d'Essonne
• Université de Franche-Comté
• Université de La Rochelle
• Université Lille 1
• Université Lille 2
• Université de Montpellier
• Université de Lorraine
• Université de Nantes
• Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
• Université de Poitiers
• Université de Rennes 1
• Université de La Réunion
• Université de Strasbourg
• Université de Toulon
• Université Toulouse III
• Université Paris Descartes (Paris V)
• Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
• Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII)

• Wellcome Trust
• JISC

Jisc Collections released data on APC payments made by UK higher education institutions (HEIs):

• Aberystwyth University
• Aston University
• Bangor University
• Brunel University
• Cardiff University
• Cranfield University
• Edinburgh Napier University
• Glasgow Caledonian University
• Goldsmiths
• Heriot-Watt University
• Imperial College London
• Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)
• Keele University
• King's College London
• Leeds Beckett University
• Liverpool John Moores University
• Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
• London School of Economics (LSE)
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
• Lancaster University
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• Northumbria University
• Plymouth University
• Queen Mary, University of London
• Queen's University Belfast
• Royal Holloway
• St George's, University of London
• Swansea University
• The Open University
• University College London (UCL)
• University of Aberdeen
• University of Bath
• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge
• University of Dundee
• University of Durham
• University of East Anglia
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Exeter
• University of Glasgow
• University of Huddersfield
• University of Hull
• University of Kent
• University of Leeds
• University of Leicester
• University of Liverpool
• University of Loughborough
• University of Manchester
• University of Newcastle
• University of Nottingham
• University of Oxford
• University of Portsmouth
• University of Reading
• University of Salford
• University of Sheffield
• University of Southampton
• University of St Andrews
• University of Strathclyde
• University of Surrey
• University of Sussex
• University of the West of England
• University of Ulster
• University of Warwick
• University of York

• Charles University
• University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
• Technical University of Ostrava

• University of Debrecen

• University of Belgrade

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Harvard University
• Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
• University of Rhode Island
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• University of Calgary

• Qatar National Library

• OpenAIRE (FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot)

Note: The following numbers and plots are always based on the latest revision of the OpenAPC data set. The underlying code can be found in the associated R Markdown template.

The article data set contains information on 111,300 open access journal articles being published in fully and hybrid open access journal. Publication fees for these articles were supported financially by 267 research performing institutions and research funders.

In total, article publication fee spending covered by the OpenAPC initiative amounted to € 218,673,414. The average payment was € 1,965 and the median was € 1,773.

66,412 articles in the data set were published in fully open access journals. Total spending on publication fees for these articles amounts to € 106,210,589, including value-added tax; the average payment was € 1,599 (median = € 1,514, SD = € 787).

Hybrid open access journals rely on both publication fees and subscriptions as revenue source. 44,888 articles in the data set were published in hybrid journals. Total expenditure amounts to 112,462,825 €; the average fee was € 2,505 (median = € 2,476, SD = € 1,003).

The book data set contains information on 949 open access books. Publication fees were supported financially by 3 research performing institutions and funders.

In total, book processing charges covered by the OpenAPC initiative amounted to € 4,163,150. The average payment was € 4,387 and the median was € 1,981.

Books can be made Open Access right from the beginning ("frontlist") or only retroactively after having been published traditionally in the first place ("backlist"), which can have a big influence on the paid BPCs.

Metadata representing publication titles or publisher names is obtained from Crossref in order to avoid extensive validation of records. Cases where we don't re-use information from Crossref to disambiguate the spending metadata are documented here. Moreover, indexing coverage in Europe PMC and the Web of science is automatically checked.

Indexing coverage

The data sets are made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License.

When citing this data set, please indicate the release you are referring to. The releases also contain information on contributors relating to the respective release.

Please do not cite the master branch of the Github repository (https://github.com/OpenAPC/openapc-de/tree/master/), but use the release numbers/tags.

Bielefeld University Library archives a copy (including commit history). To cite:

{Contributors:} Datasets on fee-based Open Access publishing across German Institutions. Bielefeld University. 10.4119/UNIBI/UB.2014.18

This project was set up in collaboration with the DINI working group Electronic Publishing. It follows Wellcome Trust example to share data on paid APCs and recognises efforts from JISC and the ESAC initative to standardise APC reporting.

Jens Harald Aasheim, Benjamin Ahlborn, Chelsea Ambler, Magdalena Andrae, Jochen Apel, Hans-Georg Becker, Roland Bertelmann, Daniel Beucke, Peter Blume, Ute Blumtritt, Sabine Boccalini, Stefanie Bollin, Katrin Bosselmann, Kim Braun, Christoph Broschinski, Paolo Buoso, Cliff Buschhart, Dorothea Busjahn, Pablo de Castro, Ann-Kathrin Christann, Roberto Cozatl, Amanda Cullin, Patrick Danowski, Gernot Deinzer, Julia Dickel, Andrea Dorner, Stefan Drößler, Karin Eckert, Carsten Elsner, Clemens Engelhardt, Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff, Ashley Farley, Inken Feldsien-Sudhaus, Silke Frank, Fabian Franke, Claudia Frick, Marléne Friedrich, Paola Galimberti, Agnes Geißelmann, Kai Karin Geschuhn, Steffi Grimm, Birgit Hablizel, Ulrich Herb, Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth, Evgenia Grishina, Christian Gutknecht, Uli Hahn, Kristina Hanig, Margit L. Hartung, Dominik Hell, Ulrich Herb, Stephanie Herzog, Kathrin Höhner, Christie Hurrell, Arto Ikonen, Doris Jaeger, Najko Jahn, Alexandra Jobmann, Juho Jussila, Nadja Kalinna, Mirjam Kant, Andreas Kennecke, Robert Kiley, Ilka Kleinod, Lydia Koglin, Biljana Kosanovic, Stephanie Kroiß, Gerrit Kuehle, Anna Laakkonen, Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Gerald Langhanke, Inga Larres, Stuart Lawson, Sari Leppänen, Camilla Lindelöw, Jutta Lotz, Kathrin Lucht-Roussel, Jan Lüth, Frank Lützenkirchen, Steffen Malo, Anna Marini, Manuel Moch, Max Mosterd, Anja Oberländer, Jere Odell, Linda Ohrtmann, Vitali Peil, Gabriele Pendorf, Mikko Pennanen, Dirk Pieper, Tobias Pohlmann, Thomas Porquet, Markus Putnings, Andrée Rathemacher, Edith Reschke, Katharina Rieck, Friedrich Riedel, Florian Ruckelshausen, Ilka Rudolf, Pavla Rygelová, Annette Scheiner, Michael Schlachter, Birgit Schlegel, Barbara Schmidt, Stefanie Seeh, Barbara Senkbeil-Stoffels, Adriana Sikora, Tereza Simandlová, Lisa Spindler, Susanne Stemmler, Matti Stöhr, Eva Stopková, Kálmán Szőke, Linda Thomas, Laura Tobler, Johanna Tönsing, Marco Tullney, Milan Vasiljevic, Astrid Vieler, Lena Vinnemann, Viola Voß, Roland Wagner, Martin Wimmer, Marco Winkler, Sabine Witt, Michael Wohlgemuth, Verena Wohlleben, Qingbo Xu, Philip Young, Philipp Zumstein

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