University of Bayreuth reports its 2020 APC expenditures

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

Bayreuth University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2020.

Contact person is Clemens Engelhardt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 83 articles, total expenditure amounts to 123,936€ and the average fee is 1,493€.

The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 31 43795 1413
Frontiers Media SA 9 16734 1859
Springer Nature 8 14996 1874
Wiley-Blackwell 7 11573 1653
Copernicus GmbH 5 5651 1130
Elsevier BV 4 6699 1675
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 5152 1717
IOP Publishing 2 2846 1423
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3471 1736
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 745 745
American Society for Microbiology 1 1870 1870
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1133 1133
Cogitatio 1 1044 1044
DAAAM International 1 1178 1178
Informa UK Limited 1 1071 1071
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1780 1780
PeerJ 1 988 988
Pensoft Publishers 1 964 964
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 1204 1204
Society for Research and Knowledge Management 1 447 447
University of Bern 1 595 595

Overview

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