University of Greifswald 2022 APC data integrated

The 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 Greifswald had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

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

Contact Person is Stefanie Bollin.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 198 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 443,736€ and the average fee is 2,241€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 59 119532 2026
Springer Nature 50 109420 2188
Frontiers Media SA 31 86565 2792
Wiley-Blackwell 15 30857 2057
Copernicus GmbH 5 6416 1283
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 10194 2039
Elsevier BV 4 11300 2825
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 11651 2913
American Medical Association (AMA) 3 9732 3244
BMJ 3 6909 2303
Informa UK Limited 3 8509 2836
American Physical Society (APS) 2 5283 2641
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 2 4762 2381
S. Karger AG 2 3365 1682
AIP Publishing 1 1788 1788
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1313 1313
American Society of Hematology 1 3529 3529
BioScientifica 1 2332 2332
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1575 1575
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1264 1264
German Medical Science 1 800 800
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2777 2777
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2186 2186
The Company of Biologists 1 1675 1675

Overview

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