University of Bremen reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The University of Bremen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

The State and University Library Bremen is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Benjamin Ahlborn.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 141 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 213 657€ and the average fee is 1 515€.

The following table shows the payments the State and University Library Bremen has made to publishers since its last contribution.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 44 53592 1218
Copernicus GmbH 32 64387 2012
Frontiers Media SA 22 41828 1901
Springer Nature 13 19932 1533
Elsevier BV 6 4077 680
SAGE Publications 3 1334 445
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5288 1763
Cogitatio 2 1440 720
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3433 1717
Informa UK Limited 2 2975 1488
Norwegian Polar Institute 2 2528 1264
PeerJ 2 2211 1105
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1719 859
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3539 3539
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1251 1251
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1644 1644
International Council of Associations for Science Education 1 50 50
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1429 1429
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1000 1000

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bremen 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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