Furtwangen University joins OpenAPC

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 Furtwangen University had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

HFU libraries are 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 Peter Daub.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by Furtwangen University covers publication fees for 6 articles, total expenditure amounts to 12,498€ and the average fee is 2,083€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 3 6090 2030
Springer Nature 3 6408 2136

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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