University of Bayreuth 2022 data integrated
21 Dec 2023The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
When reporting their publication costs, the University of Bayreuth had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated. It covers the 2022 period and some records for 2023.
Bayreuth 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 Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 96 articles, total expenditure amounts to 226,105€ and the average fee is 2,355€.
The following table provides an overview. 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 | 30 | 58327 | 1944 |
| Springer Nature | 24 | 65510 | 2730 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 14 | 42614 | 3044 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 18224 | 2603 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 8525 | 2842 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 4159 | 2080 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2594 | 1297 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2442 | 1221 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4182 | 4182 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2190 | 2190 |
| DAAAM International | 1 | 1178 | 1178 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3160 | 3160 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1827 | 1827 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2116 | 2116 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1317 | 1317 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1698 | 1698 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 1017 | 1017 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 2146 | 2146 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1687 | 1687 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
