University of Würzburg reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 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 123 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 209 873€ and the average fee is 1 706€.

The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 48 79734 1661
Frontiers Media SA 23 44755 1946
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 18 33600 1867
MDPI AG 8 10299 1287
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 7708 1927
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5724 1908
Elsevier BV 2 1548 774
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3163 1581
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3859 1930
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 2535 1267
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2274 2274
Copernicus GmbH 1 1606 1606
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 2378 2378
EARLI 1 238 238
eLife Sciences Organisation, Ltd. 1 2288 2288
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1072 1072
Microbiology Society 1 425 425
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 2070 2070
S. Karger AG 1 2143 2143
SAGE Publications 1 1601 1601
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 853 853

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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IGB joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) as new contributing institution!

The IGB Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures and the IGB publishing fund established in 2018.

Contact Person is Lydia Koglin.

Cost data

The initial dataset provided by the IGB covers publication fees for 11 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 22 407€ and the average fee is 2 037€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 3 7965 2655
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4070 2035
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3000 3000
Elsevier BV 1 2871 2871
Oekom Publishers GmbH 1 850 850
Pensoft Publishers 1 299 299
University of Chicago Press 1 352 352
Wiley-Blackwell 1 3000 3000

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides additional articles for the 2018 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 44 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 62 725€ and the average fee is 1 426€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 20932 1903
Springer Nature 9 12150 1350
MDPI AG 5 4904 981
Copernicus GmbH 3 3984 1328
BMJ 2 3213 1606
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2989 1494
SAGE Publications 2 1563 782
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 486 486
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1453 1453
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1902 1902
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1488 1488
Hikari, Ltd. 1 327 327
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 127 127
Society for Neuroscience 1 2007 2007
University of California Press 1 1416 1416
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1964 1964
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1821 1821

Overview

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