University of Duisburg-Essen reports its 2016 APC expenditures

The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.

Duisburg-Essen 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 persons are Frank Lützenkirchen and Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 47 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 74 163€ and the average fee is 1 578€.

The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 20 36340 1817
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 12577 1397
Frontiers Media SA 5 6902 1380
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 6175 1544
Elsevier BV 2 5139 2570
David Publishing Company 1 764 764
IOP Publishing 1 1170 1170
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 400 400
MDPI AG 1 1483 1483
OMICS Publishing Group 1 924 924
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1364 1364
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 925 925

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Duisburg-Essen 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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JGU Mainz reports its 2014 APC expenditures

The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2014 period.

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 dataset covers publication fees for 69 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 83 039€ and the average fee is 1 203€.

The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2014.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 23 25002 1087
Springer Science + Business Media 17 23841 1402
Frontiers Media SA 11 13903 1264
MDPI AG 6 8247 1375
BMJ 2 1967 983
Impact Journals, LLC 2 3173 1587
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3267 1634
Copernicus GmbH 1 828 828
Elsevier BV 1 347 347
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1106 1106
Horizon Research Publishing 1 158 158
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 120 120
IOP Publishing 1 1080 1080

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz 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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IST Austria joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Institute of Science and Technology Austria as new contributing institution!

Contact person is Patrick Danowski.

Initial data

The initial dataset contributed by the IST contains information on APCs paid for BMC journals from 2012 to 2015.

Cost data

The data covers publication fees for 6 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 9 400€ and the average fee is 1 567€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Science + Business Media 5 7949 1590
Springer Nature 1 1450 1450

Average costs per year (in EURO)

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