University of Potsdam reports its 2016 APC expenditures

The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.

Potsdam 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 Marco Winkler.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 36 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 55 114€ and the average fee is 1 531€.

The following table shows the payments Potsdam University Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 17415 1583
Springer Nature 10 14903 1490
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 9239 1540
IOP Publishing 3 4917 1639
AIP Publishing 1 1984 1984
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1583 1583
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 224 224
MDPI AG 1 1565 1565
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1462 1462
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1821 1821

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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JGU Mainz joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (JGU) as new contributing institution! 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 initial data covers publication fees for 76 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 122 233€ and the average fee is 1 608€.

The following table and plots show the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 29 45235 1560
Frontiers Media SA 13 24903 1916
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 18524 1425
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 6456 1614
Copernicus GmbH 3 4641 1547
Impact Journals, LLC 2 4410 2205
MDPI AG 2 2481 1241
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4260 2130
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1792 1792
BMJ 1 1900 1900
Elsevier BV 1 1127 1127
Informa UK Limited 1 1600 1600
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 110 110
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2026 2026
Society for Neuroscience 1 1311 1311
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1457 1457

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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TU Chemnitz reports its 2016 APC expenditures

Chemnitz University of Technology has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.

Chemnitz 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 Ute Blumtritt

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 15 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 21 242€ and the average fee is 1 416€.

The following table shows the payments Chemnitz University Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 4 7956 1989
Springer Nature 3 4761 1587
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3106 1553
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1436 1436
Informa UK Limited 1 270 270
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 180 180
MDPI AG 1 1387 1387
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1513 1513
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 633 633

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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