HHU Düsseldorf reports 2021 data

The Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.

The University and State Library Düsseldorf (ULB Düsseldorf) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Thorsten Lemanski.

Cost Data

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 216 articles, total expenditure amounts to 388 539€ and the average fee is 1 799€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 79 148546 1880
MDPI AG 64 114710 1792
Wiley-Blackwell 28 50575 1806
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 17602 1760
Frontiers Media SA 9 19170 2130
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 8 7140 892
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 8711 2178
Informa UK Limited 3 6051 2017
SAGE Publications 3 4444 1481
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 1966 983
BMJ 1 2672 2672
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1368 1368
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 912 912
IOP Publishing 1 1526 1526
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1862 1862
The Royal Society 1 1285 1285

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HHU Düsseldorf 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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