University of Trier reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The University of Trier has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2018 period.

The Trier 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 Dr. Evgenia Grishina.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 19 834€ and the average fee is 1 526€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 5 7366 1473
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 4633 1544
Frontiers Media SA 2 3675 1838
Copernicus GmbH 1 1374 1374
MDPI AG 1 573 573
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2212 2212

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Trier 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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MLU Halle-Wittenberg reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

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 dataset covers publication fees for 60 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 106 598€ and the average fee is 1 777€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 15 31348 2090
MDPI AG 12 13476 1123
Frontiers Media SA 11 24679 2244
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 9400 1567
Wiley-Blackwell 5 9338 1868
American Society for Microbiology 2 3345 1672
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3566 1783
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 1805 902
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1533 1533
BMJ 1 1696 1696
Impact Journals, LLC 1 3436 3436
IOP Publishing 1 1392 1392
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1584 1584

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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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for UPMC and Paris Diderot

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

Additional APC expenditures by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 26 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 42 894€ and the average fee is 1 650€.

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 12 22159 1847
Frontiers Media SA 3 2973 991
SAGE Publications 2 2675 1338
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 466 466
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1318 1318
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1436 1436
MDPI AG 1 1387 1387
Elsevier BV 1 2871 2871
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2659 2659
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1637 1637
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1338 1338
Society for Neuroscience 1 1975 1975

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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