University of Magdeburg joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OvGU) as new contributor to OpenAPC!

The OvGU Library operates an Open Access publishing fund which received supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2020.

Contact Person is Stefanie Kutz.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 335 articles published in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 673,877€ and the average fee is 2,012€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 108 264458 2449
MDPI AG 96 162788 1696
Springer Nature 42 80125 1908
Frontiers Media SA 25 53728 2149
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 20 40000 2000
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 13205 1321
Wiley-Blackwell 8 17842 2230
IEEE 5 7244 1449
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 6209 2070
Informa UK Limited 3 5155 1718
IOP Publishing 3 4437 1479
ARVO 2 3063 1532
AAAS 1 3312 3312
AIP Publishing 1 1118 1118
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1035 1035
American Mathematical Society (AMS) 1 621 621
BMJ 1 1724 1724
Medknow 1 1242 1242
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2318 2318
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2301 2301
Royan Institute 1 295 295
SAGE Publications 1 1656 1656

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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