MLU Halle-Wittenberg reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period and some remaining articles for 2019.

The MLU University and State Library (ULB) 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 Roberto Cozatl.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 144 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 229 852€ and the average fee is 1 596€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 52 72137 1387
Springer Nature 34 65536 1928
Frontiers Media SA 19 34748 1829
Wiley-Blackwell 9 12766 1418
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 11727 1675
BMJ 4 7138 1784
Elsevier BV 4 7258 1814
Informa UK Limited 4 6043 1511
BioScientifica 2 3780 1890
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 652 326
AIP Publishing 1 1618 1618
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 809 809
IOP Publishing 1 454 454
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1051 1051
S. Karger AG 1 1294 1294
SAGE Publications 1 1556 1556
The Royal Society 1 1285 1285

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MLU now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane (MHB) as new contributing institution!

The MHB Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2022.

Contact Person is Marcel Nieme.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 11 articles published in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 22,873€ and the average fee is 2,079€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
BMJ 2 3272 1636
Frontiers Media SA 2 5043 2522
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3624 1812
S. Karger AG 2 4300 2150
Elsevier BV 1 1250 1250
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1428 1428
SAGE Publications 1 3956 3956

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Turku reports first 2021 APC expenditures

The University of Turku has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides cost data on APCs paid between January and April 2021.

The data has been collected by Turku University Library, contact person is Anna-Kaarina Linna.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 45 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 81 521€ and the average fee is 1 812€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 22 34201 1555
Informa UK Limited 4 9677 2419
Springer Nature 4 11384 2846
Frontiers Media SA 3 6003 2001
Elsevier BV 2 5298 2649
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2899 1450
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1066 1066
Bristol University Press 1 1860 1860
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 3059 3059
Emerald 1 3439 3439
Finnish Society of Forest Science 1 800 800
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 769 769
Pensoft Publishers 1 710 710
SAGE Publications 1 356 356

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Turku now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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