The aim of this repository is:
- to release datasets on fees paid for Open Access journal articles 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.
So far, the following German universities have agreed to share information on paid author processing charges (APC):
- Bayreuth University
- Bielefeld University
- Clausthal University of Technology
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Hamburg University of Technology
- Heidelberg University
- Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Leipzig University
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- JLU Giessen
- KIT Karlsruhe
- Ruhr Universität Bochum
- Technische Universität Chemnitz
- 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 Kassel
- University of Konstanz
- University of Potsdam
- University of Regensburg
- University of Tübingen
- University of Würzburg
- Ulm University
Dataset on funds that are supported by research societies under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Participating Research Organizations:
The data content covers APCs as paid for by our central budget for the Max Planck Society (MPS). APCs funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of this data set. 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.
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials
- Leibniz Association's Open Access Publishing Fund
- Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
This dataset contains information on 18,308 open access journal articles being published in fully and hybrid open access journal. Publication fees for these articles were supported financially by 38 research performing institutions and research funders.
In total, publication fee spending covered by the Open APC initiative amounted to € 32,730,111. The average payment was € 1,788 and the median was € 1,547.
View dataset on GitHub or take a look at our treemap visualisations.
11,709 articles in the dataset were published in fully open access journals. Total spending on publication fees for these articles amounts to € 15,913,562, including value-added tax; the average payment was € 1,359 (median = € 1,273, SD = € 540).
The following table summarises institutional spending on articles published in fully open access journals.
| Institution | Articles | Spending total (in €) | Mean (SD) | Median | Minimum - Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPG | 2,990 | 3,879,721 | 1,298 (469) | 1,178 | 69 - 7,419 |
| Wellcome Trust | 1,375 | 2,367,564 | 1,722 (739) | 1,602 | 229 - 5,486 |
| FWF - Austrian Science Fund | 731 | 1,016,441 | 1,390 (637) | 1,271 | 100 - 5,216 |
| Goettingen U | 650 | 883,918 | 1,360 (476) | 1,354 | 180 - 4,695 |
| Freiburg U | 471 | 626,480 | 1,330 (410) | 1,386 | 50 - 2,474 |
| Wuerzburg U | 469 | 595,119 | 1,269 (416) | 1,266 | 0 - 2,514 |
| KIT | 428 | 524,346 | 1,225 (526) | 1,239 | 69 - 3,731 |
| Tuebingen U | 411 | 548,124 | 1,334 (407) | 1,346 | 150 - 2,662 |
| Erlangen Nuernberg U | 402 | 551,812 | 1,373 (369) | 1,424 | 124 - 2,286 |
| Regensburg U | 400 | 503,845 | 1,260 (504) | 1,207 | 77 - 4,403 |
| Muenchen LMU | 365 | 463,491 | 1,270 (296) | 1,299 | 496 - 2,023 |
| Giessen U | 317 | 428,690 | 1,352 (575) | 1,273 | 81 - 4,498 |
| TU Muenchen | 308 | 390,086 | 1,267 (479) | 1,386 | 131 - 2,122 |
| Bremen U | 264 | 335,873 | 1,272 (425) | 1,246 | 112 - 2,657 |
| Bielefeld U | 263 | 322,815 | 1,227 (313) | 1,232 | 0 - 2,103 |
| Konstanz U | 223 | 304,182 | 1,364 (407) | 1,342 | 40 - 2,072 |
| Heidelberg U | 215 | 308,348 | 1,434 (377) | 1,500 | 60 - 2,042 |
| Leipzig U | 173 | 243,873 | 1,410 (331) | 1,471 | 341 - 2,055 |
| FZJ - ZB | 158 | 196,869 | 1,246 (516) | 1,177 | 370 - 3,700 |
| Duisburg-Essen U | 147 | 178,437 | 1,214 (356) | 1,212 | 238 - 2,800 |
| TU Dresden | 130 | 175,723 | 1,352 (416) | 1,415 | 200 - 2,193 |
| FU Berlin | 106 | 142,671 | 1,346 (466) | 1,292 | 220 - 2,000 |
| GFZ-Potsdam | 106 | 126,520 | 1,194 (760) | 1,065 | 223 - 4,403 |
| Bayreuth U | 92 | 105,725 | 1,149 (532) | 1,200 | 82 - 2,059 |
| Bochum U | 71 | 93,546 | 1,318 (460) | 1,438 | 100 - 2,042 |
| Hannover U | 69 | 90,259 | 1,308 (414) | 1,241 | 149 - 2,159 |
| Ulm U | 65 | 92,049 | 1,416 (672) | 1,285 | 260 - 5,284 |
| Leibniz-Fonds | 56 | 92,730 | 1,656 (597) | 1,586 | 173 - 3,202 |
| MDC | 51 | 103,028 | 2,020 (1,220) | 1,483 | 575 - 4,662 |
| TU Chemnitz | 40 | 39,454 | 986 (697) | 1,056 | 78 - 2,123 |
| Kassel U | 35 | 35,550 | 1,016 (475) | 1,142 | 150 - 1,861 |
| Dortmund TU | 28 | 26,410 | 943 (937) | 826 | 155 - 4,403 |
| Hamburg TUHH | 24 | 32,789 | 1,366 (499) | 1,466 | 300 - 2,027 |
| Potsdam U | 24 | 32,128 | 1,339 (236) | 1,386 | 916 - 2,116 |
| Bamberg U | 22 | 23,663 | 1,076 (563) | 1,009 | 90 - 2,010 |
| TU Ilmenau | 17 | 18,540 | 1,091 (594) | 1,046 | 178 - 2,077 |
| TU Clausthal | 8 | 6,999 | 875 (514) | 918 | 181 - 1,724 |
| INM - Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien | 5 | 5,744 | 1,149 (560) | 1,305 | 237 - 1,679 |
Hybrid open access journals, which allow articles to be published immediatley as open access after a charge was paid, rely on both publication fees and subscritions as revenue source. This dataset covers 6,599 open access articles being published in hybrid journals. Total expenditure amounts to 32,730,111 €. Average fee is 2,548 € and the median 2,589 €.
The following institutions have contributed expenditures on hybrid open access journal articles.
| Institution | Articles | Spending total (in €) | Mean (SD) | Median | Minimum - Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellcome Trust | 3,934 | 10,482,668 | 2,665 (947) | 2,610 | 267 - 6,108 |
| FWF - Austrian Science Fund | 2,582 | 6,170,854 | 2,390 (736) | 2,515 | 120 - 5,315 |
| MPG | 40 | 63,548 | 1,589 (290) | 1,669 | 763 - 1,958 |
| MDC | 18 | 42,227 | 2,346 (1,254) | 1,996 | 491 - 4,700 |
| Ulm U | 13 | 25,932 | 1,995 (613) | 1,741 | 1,308 - 2,631 |
| INM - Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien | 9 | 27,020 | 3,002 (740) | 3,213 | 1,785 - 3,861 |
| Dortmund TU | 1 | 1,581 | 1,581 ( 0) | 1,581 | 1,581 - 1,581 |
| Duisburg-Essen U | 1 | 2,618 | 2,618 ( 0) | 2,618 | 2,618 - 2,618 |
| TU Chemnitz | 1 | 100 | 100 ( 0) | 100 | 100 - 100 |
Metadata representing journals or publishers were obtained from Crossref in order to avoid extensive validation of the records. Case 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.
| Source | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CrossRef | publisher |
Title of Publisher |
| CrossRef | journal_full_title |
Full Title of Journal |
| CrossRef | issn |
International Standard Serial Numbers (collapsed) |
| CrossRef | issn_print |
ISSN print |
| CrossRef | issn_electronic |
ISSN electronic |
| CrossRef | license_ref |
License of the article |
| CrossRef | indexed_in_crossref |
Is the article metadata registered with CrossRef? (logical) |
| EuropePMC | pmid |
PubMed ID |
| EuropePMC | pmcid |
PubMed Central ID |
| Web of Science | ut |
Web of Science record ID |
| DOAJ | doaj |
Is the journal indexed in the DOAJ? (logical) |
Indexing coverage
| Identifier | Coverage |
|---|---|
| DOI | 99.52% |
| PubMed ID | 80.7% |
| PubMed Central ID | 77.44% |
| Web of Science record ID | 87.24% |
In collaboration with the DINI working group Electronic Publishing, a wiki page(in German) explains all the steps required. Meeting and telephone conferences are documented as well:
The datasets 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 dataset, 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 follows Wellcome Trust example to share data on paid APCs. It recognises efforts from JISC and the ESAC initative to standardise APC reporting.
Benjamin Ahlborn, Jochen Apel, Hans-Georg Becker, Roland Bertelmann, Daniel Beucke, Peter Blume, Ute Blumtritt, Christoph Broschinski, Dorothea Busjahn, Gernot Deinzer, Andrea Dorner, Clemens Engelhardt, Uli Hahn, Kristina Hanig, Dominik Hell, Ulrich Herb, Ute Holzwarth, Inken Feldsien-Sudhaus, Fabian Franke, Claudia Frick, Agnes Geißelmann, Kai Karin Geschuhn, Gerrit Kuehle, Doris Jaeger, Andreas Kennecke, Robert Kiley, Stephanie Kroiss, Kathrin Lucht-Roussel, Frank Lützenkirchen, Anja Oberländer, Vitali Peil, Dirk Pieper, Tobias Pohlmann, Markus Putnings, Annette Scheiner, Michael Schlachter, Katharina Rieck, Florian Ruckelshausen, Birgit Schlegel, Adriana Sikora, Marco Tullney, Astrid Vieler, Marco Winkler, Sabine Witt, Najko Jahn
For bugs, feature requests and other issues, please submit an issue via Github.
For general comments, email openapc at uni-bielefeld.de
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