University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides additional data for the years 2016 to 2018.

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 21 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 27 131€ and the average fee is 1 292€.

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 5 8989 1798
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 5669 1417
Copernicus GmbH 2 2463 1232
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 481 240
MDPI AG 2 1978 989
IOP Publishing 1 1404 1404
Nigerian Medical Association 1 1625 1625
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1650 1650
SAGE Publications 1 975 975
Springer Nature 1 1396 1396
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 500 500

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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GFZ Potsdam reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has provided us with data on APC expenditures for the 2017 period at the GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences).

Contact person is Roland Bertelmann.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 51 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 90 844€ and the average fee is 1 781€.

The following table shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers in 2017:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 22 35719 1624
MDPI AG 15 18299 1220
Springer Nature 5 14530 2906
Frontiers Media SA 3 7888 2629
Elsevier BV 2 6085 3042
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3227 1614
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1847 1847
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 3249 3249

Overview

With the two recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the GFZ 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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TU Clausthal reports its 2016 and 2017 APC expenditures

The TU Clausthal has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 and 2017 periods.

The Library of Clausthal University of Technology 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 Silke Frank

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 7 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 11 106€ and the average fee is 1 587€.

The following table shows the payments the library of Clausthal University of Technology has made to publishers in 2016 and 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 2 921 461
Carl Hanser Verlag 1 2099 2099
Elsevier BV 1 1964 1964
MDPI AG 1 1004 1004
Springer Nature 1 2618 2618
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2500 2500

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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