12 Apr 2018
The University of Bayreuth has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.
Bayreuth 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 Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 37 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 45 435€ and the average fee is 1 228€.
The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2016.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
13 |
15474 |
1190 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
10935 |
1367 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
7822 |
1564 |
Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
3603 |
1801 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
2251 |
1126 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
2635 |
1317 |
Central Bohemia University |
1 |
119 |
119 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
IJLTER.org |
1 |
193 |
193 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
654 |
654 |
Sciedu Press |
1 |
500 |
500 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

28 Mar 2018
The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (JGU) has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2017 period (plus some additional articles from 2016).
Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds,
which is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Karin Eckert.
Cost data
The new datasets cover publication fees for 104 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 154 725€ and the average fee is 1 488€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
33 |
59425 |
1801 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
19 |
29196 |
1537 |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
17806 |
2226 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
7 |
909 |
130 |
MDPI AG |
6 |
9655 |
1609 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
5 |
8059 |
1612 |
BMJ |
3 |
4457 |
1486 |
Copernicus GmbH |
3 |
4641 |
1547 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
1908 |
954 |
Universitaet Innsbruck - Innsbruck University Press |
2 |
400 |
200 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1700 |
1700 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1411 |
1411 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1119 |
1119 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
1 |
1527 |
1527 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
952 |
952 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
1 |
2378 |
2378 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
357 |
357 |
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin |
1 |
350 |
350 |
Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd. |
1 |
231 |
231 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1790 |
1790 |
Juniper Publishers |
1 |
956 |
956 |
Medknow |
1 |
1896 |
1896 |
PeerJ |
1 |
932 |
932 |
Sciedu Press |
1 |
356 |
356 |
Scientia Socialis |
1 |
494 |
494 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1821 |
1821 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JGU Mainz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

23 Mar 2018
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has reported its 2017 expenditures for articles published in Frontiers journals.
MPDL provides institutional funding for Open Access publications for researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Society. MPDL makes use of central agreements with Open Access publishers.
Please note that article processing charges funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of this data set. The Max Planck Society has a limited input tax reduction. The refund of input VAT for APC is 20%.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 82 articles published by MPG researchers with Frontiers. Total expenditure amounts to 117 919€ and the average fee is 1 438€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers in Psychology |
18 |
29566 |
1643 |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
15 |
22579 |
1505 |
Frontiers in Microbiology |
10 |
16957 |
1696 |
Frontiers in Physiology |
8 |
11359 |
1420 |
Frontiers in Plant Science |
7 |
9366 |
1338 |
Frontiers in Immunology |
3 |
2436 |
812 |
Frontiers in Neuroscience |
3 |
4349 |
1450 |
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
2 |
3318 |
1659 |
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology |
2 |
1768 |
884 |
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience |
2 |
2212 |
1106 |
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
2 |
2949 |
1475 |
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience |
2 |
1993 |
996 |
Frontiers in Oncology |
2 |
2506 |
1253 |
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience |
1 |
1475 |
1475 |
Frontiers in Genetics |
1 |
662 |
662 |
Frontiers in Marine Science |
1 |
1106 |
1106 |
Frontiers in Materials |
1 |
1106 |
1106 |
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences |
1 |
1106 |
1106 |
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience |
1 |
1106 |
1106 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MPG now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
