University of Tübingen reports its 2021 and 2022 APC expenditures

The Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 to 2022 period.

Tübingen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is receiving support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 964 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1 876 610€ and the average fee is 1 947€.

The following table shows the payments Tübingen University Library has made to publishers in 2021 and 2022.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 291 544726 1872
Frontiers Media SA 245 494104 2017
Springer Nature 212 462179 2180
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 41 66159 1614
Elsevier BV 34 59460 1749
Wiley-Blackwell 26 47209 1816
Informa UK Limited 11 22052 2005
ARVO 8 15629 1954
Copernicus GmbH 8 9917 1240
SAGE Publications 8 9780 1223
American Society for Microbiology 7 20521 2932
BMJ 7 15391 2199
JMIR Publications Inc. 4 7644 1911
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 9845 2461
S. Karger AG 4 6025 1506
The Royal Society 4 4803 1201
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 4 4879 1220
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 7559 2520
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 4990 1663
IOP Publishing 3 4825 1608
BioScientifica 2 3570 1785
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 3364 1682
Cogitatio 2 2023 1012
Optica Publishing Group 2 3463 1732
Pensoft Publishers 2 1255 628
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2207 1103
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 2314 1157
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2 1071 536
ALTEX Edition 1 2380 2380
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4108 4108
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 2184 2184
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1207 1207
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1755 1755
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 857 857
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1906 1906
IMR Press 1 2112 2112
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1755 1755
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2023 2023
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 2013 2013
Medical Journals Sweden AB 1 1964 1964
MIT Press - Journals 1 2638 2638
Norwegian Polar Institute 1 1898 1898
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 890 890
Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO Press) 1 1949 1949
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1218 1218
Schweizerbart 1 1925 1925
Society for Neuroscience 1 2032 2032
The Company of Biologists 1 1999 1999
Wroclaw Medical University 1 833 833

Overview

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