Leipzig University updates its APC and BPC expenditures

Leipzig University has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs for the 2021 period as well as on BPCs for 2020 and 2021.

Leipzig 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 2019.

Contact person is Dr. Astrid Vieler.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 473 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 880 281€ and the average fee is 1 861€.

The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2021. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 146 271435 1859
Springer Nature 106 200392 1890
Frontiers Media SA 88 171086 1944
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 33 50699 1536
Wiley-Blackwell 23 41209 1792
Elsevier BV 15 31492 2099
Informa UK Limited 9 21245 2361
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 17354 2892
JMIR Publications Inc. 5 10239 2048
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 4 5518 1380
AIP Publishing 3 8361 2787
Copernicus GmbH 3 4088 1363
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 6872 2291
IOP Publishing 3 4734 1578
AME Publishing Company 2 2776 1388
American Physical Society (APS) 2 3804 1902
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 2 4765 2382
S. Karger AG 2 2521 1261
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 278 139
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 357 357
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4027 4027
Anticancer Research USA Inc. 1 846 846
BAKIS Productions 1 619 619
BMJ 1 2086 2086
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2022 2022
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1785 1785
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1355 1355
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1007 1007
IOS Press 1 580 580
Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) 1 1086 1086
Microbiology Society 1 2168 2168
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1032 1032
SAGE Publications 1 744 744
sub\urban e.V. 1 1500 1500
Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones 1 200 200

Overview

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