Leipzig University updates its APC and BPC expenditures
20 Dec 2023Leipzig University has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs for the 2022 period as well as on BPCs for 2023 (+ some remaining monographs from 2021 and 2022).
Leipzig University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Martin Bauschmann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 469 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1 007 456€ and the average fee is 2 148€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2022. 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 | 165 | 339633 | 2058 |
| Springer Nature | 123 | 260162 | 2115 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 77 | 189451 | 2460 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 24 | 51120 | 2130 |
| Elsevier BV | 20 | 48394 | 2420 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 6 | 10273 | 1712 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 13588 | 2265 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 12153 | 2431 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 3 | 6590 | 2197 |
| IMR Press | 3 | 6914 | 2305 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 2901 | 967 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2 | 9437 | 4718 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 2 | 4765 | 2382 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 5571 | 2785 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 2704 | 1352 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 4359 | 2179 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2332 | 1166 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1713 | 1713 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1413 | 1413 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1040 | 1040 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 3382 | 3382 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1372 | 1372 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2772 | 2772 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| DiGZ. Digitalen Zugang zu Wissen demokratisch gestalten e.V. | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3276 | 3276 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1740 | 1740 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2943 | 2943 |
| Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) | 1 | 867 | 867 |
| Knowledge E DMCC | 1 | 536 | 536 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1849 | 1849 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1403 | 1403 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 1377 | 1377 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 2782 | 2782 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1754 | 1754 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1676 | 1676 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1220 | 1220 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
