University of Bamberg reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The University of Bamberg has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2017 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 14 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 16 924€ and the average fee is 1 209€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
SAGE Publications 4 1761 440
Frontiers Media SA 3 4979 1660
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3756 1878
Springer Nature 2 2788 1394
Elsevier BV 1 449 449
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1891 1891
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1300 1300

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bamberg 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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GIGA joins OpenAPC

We welcome the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies as new contributing institution!

The GIGA Information Centre manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GIGA Open Access Guidelines.

Contact Person is Jan Lüth.

Cost data

The initial dataset provided by GIGA covers publication fees for 13 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 27 235€ and the average fee is 2 095€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 4 6786 1696
SAGE Publications 3 6855 2285
Brill Academic Publishers 1 1995 1995
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2164 2164
Informa UK Limited 1 2150 2150
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2550 2550
University of Chicago Press 1 2152 2152
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2583 2583

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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Forschungszentrum Jülich reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The Central Library(ZB) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich has provided institutional APC expenditures for the 2017 period.

Contact person is Claudia Frick.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 186 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 305 560€ and the average fee is 1 643€.

The following table shows the payments the FZJ has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 43 82375 1916
Elsevier BV 21 40658 1936
Frontiers Media SA 19 31358 1650
MDPI AG 19 20972 1104
Copernicus GmbH 15 23107 1540
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 11 17445 1586
IOP Publishing 10 14966 1497
AIP Publishing 7 13835 1976
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 5 6009 1202
American Chemical Society (ACS) 4 5633 1408
American Physical Society (APS) 4 7413 1853
Wiley-Blackwell 4 9247 2312
Informa UK Limited 3 2365 788
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 3470 1735
American Meteorological Society 2 5058 2529
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4580 2290
Soil Science Society of America 2 2189 1094
American Society of Agronomy 1 190 190
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1565 1565
EDP Sciences 1 40 40
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 334 334
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 1232 1232
MyJove Corporation 1 3698 3698
OMICS Publishing Group 1 2719 2719
OPAST Group 1 533 533
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1455 1455
Physical Society of Japan 1 382 382
S. Karger AG 1 626 626
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 872 872
University of California Press 1 1234 1234

Overview

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