Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) updates its APC expenditures

The UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) has replaced its previous APC data with a new version.

The UFZ Library manages the institute’s expenditures for Open Access publishing.

Contact person is Ilka Rudolf.

About the dataset

The new data set contributed by the UFZ contains information on publication fees paid from 2012 to 2019.

Cost Data

The new data covers publication fees for 145 articles. It replaces 98 existing UFZ entries, leading to a net increase of 47 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 187 249€ and the average fee is 1 291€.

The following table and plots show the payments the UFZ Library has made to publishers from 2012 to 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 47 48380 1029
Copernicus GmbH 40 46049 1151
Frontiers Media SA 31 56315 1817
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 22 28649 1302
Wiley-Blackwell 5 7855 1571

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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JLU Gießen reports additional APC expenditures for 2018 and 2019

The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 and 2019 periods.

The JLU University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 78 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 122 934€ and the average fee is 1 576€.

The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 28 44022 1572
Frontiers Media SA 17 33139 1949
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 7 13820 1974
MDPI AG 6 7152 1192
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 8014 1603
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 1587 794
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3775 1887
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1696 1696
AIP Publishing 1 1414 1414
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 589 589
Cogitatio 1 536 536
EDP Sciences 1 1071 1071
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 447 447
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2281 2281
PAGEPress Publications 1 750 750
PeerJ 1 988 988
Pensoft Publishers 1 654 654
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 1 1000 1000

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU 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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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg 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 Markus Putnings.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 212 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 328 661€ and the average fee is 1 550€.

The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 66 107256 1625
Frontiers Media SA 44 79010 1796
MDPI AG 37 44768 1210
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 14 21395 1528
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 7 13280 1897
Elsevier BV 7 8114 1159
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 7 8418 1203
Ivyspring International Publisher 3 5925 1975
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 3247 1623
BMJ 2 3289 1645
Copernicus GmbH 2 3052 1526
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3530 1765
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3430 1715
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1303 652
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3276 1638
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1512 1512
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1802 1802
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1976 1976
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1964 1964
Impact Journals, LLC 1 1966 1966
Informa UK Limited 1 500 500
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1987 1987
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1741 1741
PAGEPress Publications 1 714 714
S. Karger AG 1 1743 1743
SAGE Publications 1 607 607
University of Uludag 1 1785 1785

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg 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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