The aim of this repository is:
At the moment this project provides the following cost data:
Publication Type | Count | Aggregated Sum (€) | Contributing Institutions |
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Articles | 228,541 | 455,653,281 | 439 |
Monographs | 1,996 | 13,132,824 | 71 |
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.
Dataset | CSV File | OLAP Cube | Treemap |
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articles | APC file, data schema | APC cube | APC treemap |
monographs | BPC file, data schema | BPC cube | BPC treemap |
Our latest data release can always be accessed via the following DOI:
In 2024 OpenAPC started to aggregate additional costs like page charges or submission fees, which may occur in the context of OA publishing aside from APCs. These cost types are considered optional and thus collected in a separate data file, they are linked to a main publication entry using the DOI as primary key. At the moment additional costs are only collected for journal articles.
Dataset | Main CSV File | Additional Costs File | OLAP Cube | Treemap |
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articles | APC file | APC additional costs | APC_AC cube | APC_AC Treemap |
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. The following institutions have contributed to OpenAPC so far:
SWP - German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Hannover U und TIB
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 228,541 open access journal articles being published in fully and hybrid open access journal. Publication fees for these articles were supported financially by 439 research performing institutions and research funders.
In total, article publication fee spending covered by the OpenAPC initiative amounted to € 455,653,281. The average payment was € 1,994 and the median was € 1,844.
166,597 articles in the data set were published in fully open access journals. Total spending on publication fees for these articles amounts to € 298,490,701, including value-added tax; the average payment was € 1,792 (median = € 1,690, SD = € 851).
Hybrid open access journals rely on both publication fees and subscriptions as revenue source. 61,944 articles in the data set were published in hybrid journals. Total expenditure amounts to 157,162,580 €; the average fee was € 2,537 (median = € 2,499, SD = € 1,082).
period | OA articles | OA mean | OA median | OA min - max | Hybrid Articles | Hybrid mean | Hybrid median | Hybrid min - max |
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2005 | 7 | 858 | 871 | 480.0 - 1,350 | 1 | 2,983 | 2,983 | 2,983.3 - 2,983 |
2006 | 52 | 1,021 | 1,095 | 665.0 - 1,340 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2007 | 88 | 1,081 | 1,062 | 870.0 - 1,825 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2008 | 205 | 1,170 | 1,025 | 440.8 - 2,830 | 1 | 2,660 | 2,660 | 2,660.0 - 2,660 |
2009 | 359 | 1,185 | 1,060 | 124.6 - 4,386 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2010 | 401 | 1,261 | 1,139 | 158.8 - 7,419 | 3 | 2,318 | 2,173 | 2,152.0 - 2,630 |
2011 | 777 | 1,158 | 1,127 | 104.8 - 4,666 | 6 | 1,781 | 2,085 | 552.0 - 2,631 |
2012 | 1,577 | 1,173 | 1,175 | 69.0 - 4,498 | 20 | 2,308 | 2,412 | 997.4 - 2,700 |
2013 | 2,473 | 1,229 | 1,178 | 50.0 - 4,574 | 1,098 | 2,257 | 2,260 | 120.2 - 4,679 |
2014 | 5,190 | 1,375 | 1,255 | 40.0 - 9,028 | 6,523 | 2,238 | 2,200 | 132.3 - 6,000 |
2015 | 8,477 | 1,523 | 1,451 | 59.0 - 5,669 | 6,693 | 2,609 | 2,621 | 126.6 - 8,636 |
2016 | 9,845 | 1,637 | 1,531 | 62.5 - 5,985 | 7,892 | 2,551 | 2,514 | 2.3 - 9,079 |
2017 | 14,972 | 1,701 | 1,553 | 8.7 - 14,634 | 10,641 | 2,528 | 2,469 | 36.9 - 9,858 |
2018 | 16,244 | 1,701 | 1,583 | 13.0 - 8,926 | 9,473 | 2,551 | 2,539 | 1.8 - 9,073 |
2019 | 17,535 | 1,703 | 1,630 | 10.7 - 7,684 | 7,058 | 2,535 | 2,499 | 75.3 - 9,500 |
2020 | 21,240 | 1,717 | 1,683 | 0.2 - 8,906 | 4,474 | 2,494 | 2,533 | 16.6 - 7,416 |
2021 | 25,979 | 1,823 | 1,792 | 27.0 - 8,341 | 3,483 | 2,549 | 2,506 | 30.2 - 11,400 |
2022 | 28,594 | 2,101 | 1,999 | 12.4 - 11,175 | 2,914 | 2,860 | 2,725 | 2.1 - 14,607 |
2023 | 11,631 | 2,241 | 2,141 | 17.4 - 9,893 | 1,487 | 2,959 | 2,759 | 106.4 - 11,895 |
2024 | 951 | 2,432 | 2,389 | 179.0 - 7,723 | 177 | 3,885 | 3,306 | 231.3 - 12,554 |
In addition to APCs, additional costs have been reported for 169 articles, totalling € 34,347. The following table shows an overview of the different cost types:
Cost Type | Number of Articles | Total Sum (€) |
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colour charge | 4 | 4,179 |
cover charge | 4 | 5,568 |
other | 126 | 7,759 |
page charge | 21 | 15,738 |
payment fee | 12 | 713 |
reprint | 1 | 356 |
submission fee | 1 | 33 |
This plot shows the cost distribution grouped by publishers. It includes only articles where additional reports have been reported and summarizes both additional costs and APCs for all of them:
The book data set contains information on 1,996 open access books. Publication fees were supported financially by 71 research performing institutions and funders.
In total, book processing charges covered by the OpenAPC initiative amounted to € 13,132,824. The average payment was € 6,580 and the median was € 6,858.
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.
period | Frontlist books | mean BPC | median BPC | BPC min - max | Backlist books | mean BPC | median BPC | BPC min - max |
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2014 | 62 | 15,043 | 16,000 | 1,663 - 20,000 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2015 | 44 | 14,676 | 14,000 | 8,000 - 20,000 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2016 | 42 | 12,449 | 14,000 | 1,190 - 22,000 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2017 | 184 | 9,250 | 8,780 | 1,075 - 21,000 | 195 | 1,981 | 1,981 | 1,981 - 1,981 |
2018 | 149 | 8,925 | 8,250 | 476 - 21,104 | 191 | 1,875 | 1,875 | 1,875 - 1,875 |
2019 | 173 | 7,794 | 8,250 | 774 - 22,000 | 194 | 1,876 | 1,875 | 1,875 - 1,981 |
2020 | 165 | 7,469 | 7,380 | 802 - 19,200 | 2 | 1,235 | 1,235 | 595 - 1,875 |
2021 | 174 | 6,974 | 6,561 | 595 - 18,000 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2022 | 215 | 7,656 | 6,902 | 1,000 - 50,000 | 1 | 3,467 | 3,467 | 3,467 - 3,467 |
2023 | 188 | 7,289 | 6,789 | 265 - 22,000 | 7 | 1,693 | 1,464 | 280 - 3,350 |
2024 | 10 | 6,305 | 6,283 | 1,300 - 10,710 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
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.
Source | Variable | Description |
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CrossRef | publisher |
Title of Publisher |
CrossRef | journal_full_title |
Full title of the 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) |
Source | Variable | Description |
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CrossRef | publisher |
Title of Publisher |
CrossRef | book_title |
Full Title of a Book |
CrossRef | isbn |
International Standard Book Number |
CrossRef | isbn_print |
ISBN print |
CrossRef | isbn_electronic |
ISBN electronic |
CrossRef | license_ref |
License of the article |
CrossRef | indexed_in_crossref |
Is the article metadata registered with CrossRef? (logical) |
DOAB | doab |
Is the book indexed in the DOAB? (logical) |
Identifier | Coverage (articles) | Coverage (Books) |
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DOI | 99.75% | 87.78% |
PubMed ID | 73.76% | NA |
PubMed Central ID | 68.29% | NA |
Web of Science record ID | 72.11% | NA |
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.
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