27 Apr 2017
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

26 Apr 2017
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

25 Apr 2017
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)
