University of Marburg reports APC expenditures for 2021

The University of Marburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

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

Contact Person is Margit L. Hartung.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 168 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 297,472€ and the average fee is 1,771€.

The following table shows the payments Marburg University Library has made to publishers in 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 59 93760 1589
Springer Nature 54 116187 2152
Frontiers Media SA 13 21241 1634
Wiley-Blackwell 12 24089 2007
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 10273 1712
Informa UK Limited 4 5047 1262
BMJ 2 3351 1675
SAGE Publications 2 2762 1381
AIP Publishing 1 1497 1497
Association of Basic Medical Sciences of FBIH 1 1192 1192
California Digital Library (CDL) 1 307 307
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 892 892
Copernicus GmbH 1 1558 1558
Elsevier BV 1 726 726
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1922 1922
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1157 1157
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1708 1708
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2004 2004
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 700 700
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1258 1258
Quintessenz 1 1488 1488
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 1426 1426
Society for Neuroscience 1 1056 1056
The Company of Biologists 1 1871 1871

Overview

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