University of Würzburg reports its 2019 APC expenditures

The University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.

Würzburg 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 Kristina Hanig.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 196 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 329 583€ and the average fee is 1 682€.

The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 56 106089 1894
Springer Nature 51 86587 1698
MDPI AG 30 35661 1189
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 22071 1698
Wiley-Blackwell 10 16952 1695
Elsevier BV 7 13242 1892
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 5167 1292
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 10586 2647
Informa UK Limited 3 5531 1844
The Company of Biologists 3 4284 1428
American Society for Microbiology 2 5013 2506
BMJ 2 3505 1752
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 2380 2380
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1982 1982
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1755 1755
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 706 706
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 2071 2071
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1741 1741
Pensoft Publishers 1 654 654
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1037 1037
Science and Education Publishing 1 425 425
University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 1 357 357
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1785 1785

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Würzburg 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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