Heidelberg University updates its APC expenditures from 2016 to 2018
30 Aug 2018Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains additional APC data for the 2017 and 2018 periods and introduces some corrections.
The University Library Heidelberg 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 Dr. Jochen Apel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 112 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 173 459€ and the average fee is 1 549€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 47 | 78350 | 1667 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 21 | 36318 | 1729 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 12115 | 1211 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 14705 | 1471 |
| BMJ | 4 | 5840 | 1460 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 2436 | 812 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2817 | 1408 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 3729 | 1865 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3866 | 1933 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 507 | 507 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 1755 | 1755 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1743 | 1743 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 1446 | 1446 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1556 | 1556 |
| Journal of Infection in Developing Countries | 1 | 357 | 357 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1505 | 1505 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1410 | 1410 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 541 | 541 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
