University of Bremen joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Bremen as new contributing institution! 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.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by University of Bremen contains information on publication fees paid in 6 years from 2011 to 2016.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 264 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 335 873€ and the average fee is 1 272€.

The following table shows the payments University of Bremen has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 130 158354 1218
Springer Science + Business Media 38 44687 1176
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 31 40394 1303
Frontiers Media SA 19 33582 1767
Springer Nature 13 19424 1494
MDPI AG 11 17248 1568
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 3218 804
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 3 1795 598
American Physical Society (APS) 2 3108 1554
Informa UK Limited 2 1869 935
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3020 1510
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1548 1548
BMJ 1 2320 2320
IOP Publishing 1 1285 1285
Jacobs Publishers 1 217 217
OMICS Publishing Group 1 681 681
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1308 1308
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 789 789
SAGE Publications 1 575 575
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 450 450

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 Dortmund updates its 2015 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität Dortmund has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2015 period.

Dortmund University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Dr. Kathrin Höhner.

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 20 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 19 754€ and the average fee is 988€.

The following table shows the payments Dortmund University Library has made to publishers in 2015.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 1 1581 1581
Frontiers Media SA 4 6245 1561
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 10 1747 175
MDPI AG 3 4135 1378
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1642 1642
Springer Nature 1 4403 4403

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for TU Dortmund 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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JLU Giessen updates its 2015 and 2016 APC expenditures

Justus Liebig University Giessen has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2015 and 2016 periods.

The JLU 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 Florian Ruckelshausen.

Cost Data

The first new dataset extends Giessen’s contribution for the last year to 77 articles. Total 2015 expenditure amounts to 106 461€ and the average fee is 1 383€.

The following table shows the payments the JLU University Library has made to publishers in 2015.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 27 40052 1483
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 19005 1462
Frontiers Media SA 13 17341 1334
Copernicus GmbH 6 6683 1114
Wiley-Blackwell 4 7252 1813
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 4 9274 2318
Canadian Center of Science and Education 2 559 280
Annex Publishers, LLC 2 1539 770
Symbiosis Group 1 861 861
SAGE Publications 1 725 725
PAGEPress Publications 1 892 892
Impact Journals, LLC 1 1537 1537
German Society for Quality Research on Plant Foods (DGQ) 1 100 100
Elsevier BV 1 640 640

The second new dataset covers publication fees for 25 articles, which the fund covered in 2016 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 35 335€ and the average fee is 1 413€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 8 12448 1556
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 5864 1466
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 5550 1387
Frontiers Media SA 4 7134 1784
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 660 660
IOP Publishing 1 1856 1856
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University 1 617 617
German Society for Quality Research on Plant Foods (DGQ) 1 100 100
Copernicus GmbH 1 1107 1107

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for JLU Giessen 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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