GFZ Potsdam reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has provided us with data on APC expenditures for the 2018 period at the GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences).

Contact person is Roland Bertelmann.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 63 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 102 112€ and the average fee is 1 621€.

The following table shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the GFZ in 2018:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 35 40923 1169
Springer Nature 10 26086 2609
Frontiers Media SA 6 11788 1965
MDPI AG 6 8252 1375
Elsevier BV 2 5574 2787
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 2380 2380
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1156 1156
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2166 2166
Soil Science Society of America 1 3788 3788

Overview

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

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University of Bamberg reports its 2018 APC expenditures

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

Bamberg 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 Dr. Fabian Franke.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 8 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 8 044€ and the average fee is 1 006€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 2 2392 1196
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1576 1576
Editorial Universidad de Almeria 1 107 107
Elsevier BV 1 445 445
Frontiers Media SA 1 1690 1690
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1230 1230
SAGE Publications 1 604 604

Overview

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

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University of Göttingen reports its 2018 APC expenditures

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

The Göttingen State and 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 persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 240 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 372 777€ and the average fee is 1 553€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 55 104977 1909
Frontiers Media SA 46 85000 1848
MDPI AG 39 35704 916
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 34 55999 1647
Elsevier BV 9 13740 1527
Copernicus GmbH 8 11275 1409
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 8 11506 1438
Wiley-Blackwell 7 10370 1481
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 5198 1300
F1000 Research, Ltd. 3 2028 676
SAGE Publications 3 1834 611
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2 6754 3377
Impact Journals, LLC 2 6582 3291
Informa UK Limited 2 2933 1467
Pensoft Publishers 2 1309 654
Wageningen Academic Publishers 2 2380 1190
AIP Publishing 1 1302 1302
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 1 1046 1046
BMJ 1 1589 1589
Boffin Access 1 349 349
British Institute of Radiology 1 539 539
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1926 1926
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1999 1999
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 860 860
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1267 1267
The Company of Biologists 1 1551 1551
The Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 1 361 361
The Korean Society of Veterinary Science (KAMJE) 1 1363 1363
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 439 439
Wildlife Biology 1 595 595

Overview

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

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