Ulm University updates its 2018 APC expenditures

Ulm University has updated its APC expenditures, providing additional data for the 2018 period.

Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Uli Hahn.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 82 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 153 044€ and the average fee is 1 866€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 34 66089 1944
Springer Nature 13 28082 2160
MDPI AG 10 11712 1171
IOP Publishing 6 8261 1377
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 7512 1502
Elsevier BV 4 10727 2682
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3542 1771
AIP Publishing 1 1375 1375
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3911 3911
American Physical Society (APS) 1 3240 3240
BMJ 1 1084 1084
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 2891 2891
Impact Journals, LLC 1 1514 1514
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 676 676
The Royal Society 1 2428 2428

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ulm 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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JLU Gießen reports 2018 APC expenditures

The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data mainly for the 2018 period plus additional articles for 2016 and 2017.

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 162 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 277 191€ and the average fee is 1 711€.

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 34 63529 1869
Frontiers Media SA 32 74591 2331
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 25 38204 1528
MDPI AG 17 22362 1315
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 9 15430 1714
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 6 10621 1770
Elsevier BV 5 9445 1889
SAGE Publications 5 3422 684
Wiley-Blackwell 5 9432 1886
American Society for Microbiology 4 2179 545
Copernicus GmbH 2 4177 2088
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3122 1561
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 2956 1478
Pensoft Publishers 2 1278 639
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1666 1666
AIP Publishing 1 1173 1173
AME Publishing Company 1 1232 1232
BioScientifica 1 1167 1167
Crop Science Society of America 1 1363 1363
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1904 1904
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1454 1454
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2871 2871
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University 1 662 662
IOP Publishing 1 1856 1856
PeerJ 1 896 896
Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones 1 200 200

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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Ruhr Universität Bochum reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2018 period.

The 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 since 2014.

Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 102 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 157 401€ and the average fee is 1 543€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 29 51593 1779
Springer Nature 24 37672 1570
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 17 25923 1525
MDPI AG 12 17577 1465
Elsevier BV 3 2303 768
EconJournals 2 881 440
Pensoft Publishers 2 1113 556
The Company of Biologists 2 2974 1487
BMJ 1 1809 1809
Copernicus GmbH 1 1392 1392
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1825 1825
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1904 1904
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 2019 2019
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1358 1358
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1576 1576
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1697 1697
PeerJ 1 948 948
SAGE Publications 1 2001 2001
University of California Press 1 836 836

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB 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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