Osnabrück University joins OpenAPC

We welcome Osnabrück University as new contributing institution!

Osnabrück University Library 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 Sabine Boccalini.

Cost data

The initial dataset provided by Osnabrück University Library covers publication fees for 65 articles published in 2016 and 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 90 046€ and the average fee is 1 385€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 16 24130 1508
Frontiers Media SA 13 22372 1721
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 11 19187 1744
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 5 1066 213
MDPI AG 5 6594 1319
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3889 1944
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1904 1904
American Association For Science and Technology (AASCIT) 1 338 338
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1954 1954
Bern Open Publishing 1 547 547
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 388 388
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1603 1603
Informa UK Limited 1 1367 1367
Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 654 654
Portland Press Ltd. 1 792 792
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1437 1437
SAGE Publications 1 530 530
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 698 698
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

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 year (in EURO)

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University of Bremen reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The University of Bremen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.

The State and University Library Bremen 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 Benjamin Ahlborn.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 91 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 162 298€ and the average fee is 1 783€.

The following table shows the payments the State and University Library Bremen has made to publishers since its last contribution.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 24 48766 2032
Springer Nature 19 37320 1964
MDPI AG 17 23290 1370
Frontiers Media SA 10 21673 2167
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 4801 1600
BMJ 2 3451 1726
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 1832 916
PeerJ 2 2279 1139
SAGE Publications 2 980 490
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3809 3809
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1023 1023
Cogitatio 1 1190 1190
Elsevier BV 1 801 801
Impact Journals, LLC 1 3157 3157
Informa UK Limited 1 2320 2320
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2851 2851
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1620 1620
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 1 1000 1000
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 134 134

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bremen now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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TU München reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.

The TUM 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 Christian Pauls.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 307 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 434 375€ and the average fee is 1 415€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 106 166377 1570
MDPI AG 45 48777 1084
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 42 66715 1588
Frontiers Media SA 37 67239 1817
Wiley-Blackwell 11 13555 1232
Copernicus GmbH 8 5818 727
Elsevier BV 8 11271 1409
IOP Publishing 6 8818 1470
Oxford University Press (OUP) 5 6871 1374
Informa UK Limited 4 4234 1059
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 4 2670 667
American Society for Microbiology 3 2356 785
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 5508 1836
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 4716 1572
SAGE Publications 3 2036 679
PeerJ 2 1832 916
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1129 564
AIP Publishing 1 1519 1519
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1538 1538
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 460 460
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 505 505
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1224 1224
innsbruck university press 1 416 416
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1589 1589
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) 1 357 357
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 227 227
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 520 520
IWA Publishing 1 871 871
Joule Inc. 1 1625 1625
The Company of Biologists 1 1532 1532
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 881 881
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 1190 1190

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TUM now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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