Free University of Bozen-Bolzano joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano as our second participant from Italy!

Contact person is Paolo Buoso.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by the University of Bozen-Bolzano contains information on publication fees paid in 2018 and 2019.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 23 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 34 831€ and the average fee is 1 514€.

The following table and plots show the payments the university has made to publishers in 2018 and 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 7 13173 1882
Springer Nature 4 9870 2467
MDPI AG 2 972 486
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4897 2449
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1696 848
Allied Business Academies 1 366 366
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 260 260
Frontiers Media SA 1 2221 2221
Informa UK Limited 1 561 561
Scholink Co, Ltd. 1 303 303
Virtus Interpress 1 512 512

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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New APC data harvested from Bielefeld University

New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH.

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

Contact person is Dirk Pieper.

Cost data

The harvested data includes 198 articles, amounting to 292 988€ and an average fee of 1 480€.

Note that the net intake is lower, as 89 articles were already present in the OpenAPC data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 72 105002 1458
Frontiers Media SA 43 78689 1830
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 29 46222 1594
MDPI AG 17 14481 852
Wiley-Blackwell 7 11435 1634
BMJ 3 4773 1591
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 3 5979 1993
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 3 3059 1020
American Society for Microbiology 2 1404 702
Elsevier BV 2 3704 1852
AIP Publishing 1 1373 1373
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 790 790
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1935 1935
Copernicus GmbH 1 1881 1881
Crimson Publishers 1 424 424
Genetics Society of America 1 2242 2242
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1509 1509
Informa UK Limited 1 738 738
Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology 1 1026 1026
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1918 1918
Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 1011 1011
PeerJ 1 1050 1050
SAGE Publications 1 279 279
Scientific & Academic Publishing 1 140 140
The Royal Society 1 1285 1285
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 401 401
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 238 238

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Bielefeld University 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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University of Würzburg reports its 2018 APC expenditures

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

Würzburg 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 Kristina Hanig.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 127 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 202 719€ and the average fee is 1 596€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 54 90334 1673
Frontiers Media SA 18 32248 1792
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 21745 1673
MDPI AG 9 11104 1234
Elsevier BV 5 3777 755
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 6604 1651
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 3 6371 2124
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 4929 1643
PeerJ 3 2823 941
American Society for Microbiology 2 4609 2305
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3668 1834
Wiley-Blackwell 2 1083 541
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1666 1666
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 749 749
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1804 1804
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 2142 2142
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2063 2063
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2290 2290
Science and Education Publishing Co., Ltd. 1 103 103
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 822 822
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1785 1785

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Würzburg 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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