University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides more articles for the 2021 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 101 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 176 334€ and the average fee is 1 746€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 40 77162 1929
MDPI AG 29 49264 1699
Springer Nature 10 18072 1807
Copernicus GmbH 4 5989 1497
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 4910 1637
Elsevier BV 2 2916 1458
SAGE Publications 2 2938 1469
Wiley-Blackwell 2 2257 1129
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 884 884
AIP Publishing 1 1473 1473
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1959 1959
BMJ 1 1876 1876
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1912 1912
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1555 1555
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1033 1033
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 261 261
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1874 1874

Overview

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