11 Mar 2019
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

01 Mar 2019
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

01 Mar 2019
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
