University of Freiburg reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The University of Freiburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2018 period.

Freiburg 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 Nadine Keßler.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 168 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 262 469€ and the average fee is 1 562€.

The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2018.

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures, the lastest contribution provides more articles for the 2019 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 57 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 87 444€ and the average fee is 1 534€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

University of Mannheim joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Mannheim as new contributing institution!

The University Library Mannheim manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund and has kindly provided an initial data set on APC expenditures. Please note that this fund is not supported by the DFG’s Open-Access Publishing Programme (contrary to most German universities participating in OpenAPC), but instead by Mannheim University Library, the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).

Contact Person is Philipp Zumstein.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 12 articles published from 2017 to 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 20 618€ and the average fee is 1 718€.

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)