University of Mannheim 2022 APC data integrated
12 Jan 2024The 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 Mannheim had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The University Library Mannheim manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.
Contact Person is Philipp Zumstein.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 35 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 74 963€ and the average fee is 2 142€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 18813 | 2090 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 10874 | 2175 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 6549 | 1637 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 13235 | 4412 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5025 | 1675 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 5502 | 1834 |
| IOS Press | 2 | 1190 | 595 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 6574 | 3287 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2137 | 2137 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1931 | 1931 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1132 | 1132 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mannheim now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
