University of Regensburg provides 3 new APC datasets
24 Feb 2016University of Regensburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2010, 2011 and 2015 periods.
Regensburg University Library is in charge of the central publication fund at University of Regensburg, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Gernot Deinzer gernot.deinzer@bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de
Cost Data
The first new dataset covers publication fees for 91 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 139 882€ and the average fee is 1 537€.
The following table shows the payments Regensburg University Library has made to publishers in 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 25 | 38698 | 1548 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 24 | 37060 | 1544 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 20650 | 1588 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 9 | 14850 | 1650 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 5 | 7747 | 1549 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 4058 | 2029 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 1525 | 763 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3071 | 1536 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 2334 | 1167 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 3666 | 1833 |
| Public Library of Science | 1 | 1424 | 1424 |
| Medknow | 1 | 180 | 180 |
| International Heart Journal (Japanese Heart Journal) | 1 | 1124 | 1124 |
| InTech | 1 | 797 | 797 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 2699 | 2699 |
The second new dataset covers publication fees for 26 articles from the 2011 period. Total expenditure amounts to 27 940€ and the average fee is 1 075€:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 11 | 13766 | 1251 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 5430 | 1086 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3427 | 1714 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 1118 | 559 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 250 | 125 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 687 | 687 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1383 | 1383 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press) | 1 | 978 | 978 |
The final dataset covers publication fees for 4 articles from the 2010 period. Total expenditure amounts to 5 102€ and the average fee is 1 275€:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 3 | 3827 | 1276 |
| Libertas Academica, Ltd. | 1 | 1275 | 1275 |
Overview
With the recent 3 datasets included, the overall APC data for University of Regensburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
