TU Dortmund reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität Dortmund has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

Dortmund University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Dr. Kathrin Höhner.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 21 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 26 857€ and the average fee is 1 279€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 5 6649 1330
Springer Nature 4 6446 1611
Frontiers Media SA 3 4875 1625
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 775 775
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
Elsevier BV 1 869 869
Informa UK Limited 1 1389 1389
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 164 164
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 1 1000 1000
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2034 2034
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 684 684
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 900 900

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Dortmund 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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GEOMAR joins OpenAPC

We welcome the GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel as new contributing institution!

The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.

Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.

Cost data

The initial dataset provided by the GEOMAR covers publication fees for 208 articles published from 2017 to 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 405 587€ and the average fee is 1 950€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 47 76073 1619
Springer Nature 46 111871 2432
Frontiers Media SA 18 26684 1482
Wiley-Blackwell 18 32410 1801
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 16 41876 2617
MDPI AG 14 22572 1612
Elsevier BV 13 32518 2501
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 11392 1424
American Meteorological Society 4 2860 715
American Society for Microbiology 3 4739 1580
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 7977 2659
AAAS 2 8048 4024
IEEE 2 3652 1826
Informa UK Limited 2 2970 1485
Inter-Research Science Center 2 3200 1600
REABIC 2 1680 840
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 4000 2000
Geological Society of America 1 1565 1565
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 2500 2500
IOP Publishing 1 1800 1800
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2215 2215
PeerJ 1 945 945
The Royal Society 1 2040 2040

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 year (in EURO)

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University of Potsdam reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

Potsdam 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 Linda Thomas.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 61 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 88 155€ and the average fee is 1 445€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 17 29627 1743
MDPI AG 12 12043 1004
Springer Nature 10 15218 1522
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 11126 1589
Copernicus GmbH 4 6054 1513
Informa UK Limited 2 1621 811
IOP Publishing 2 2692 1346
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3277 1639
BMJ 1 2008 2008
Cogitatio 1 857 857
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1029 1029
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2007 2007
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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