New APC data harvested from Saarland University

New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Saarland University.

The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) decided to make data on APC expenditures directly available in their institutional repository, where it can be harvested by OpenAPC on a regular basis via OAI-PMH.

The SULB is also in charge of the central publication fund at Saarland University, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Ulrich Herb.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 75 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 121,492€ and the average fee is 1,620€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 33 54848 1662
Springer Nature 16 28050 1753
Frontiers Media SA 5 5993 1199
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6281 1570
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 5402 1801
Elsevier BV 2 1987 994
University of Uludag 2 3570 1785
BMJ 1 2067 2067
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1740 1740
Copernicus GmbH 1 950 950
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 981 981
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1972 1972
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1737 1737
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1905 1905
PeerJ 1 1418 1418
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1619 1619
University of California Press 1 972 972

Overview

The overall APC data for Saarland University 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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