University of Marburg 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 Marburg had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

Marburg 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 Margit L. Hartung.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 255 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 632,452€ and the average fee is 2,480€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 73 146066 2001
Frontiers Media SA 55 165281 3005
Springer Nature 38 102414 2695
Elsevier BV 27 76246 2824
Wiley-Blackwell 12 29050 2421
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 15988 1999
Informa UK Limited 7 19695 2814
Oxford University Press (OUP) 5 16536 3307
American Chemical Society (ACS) 3 7200 2400
BMJ 3 6058 2019
American Society for Microbiology 2 5904 2952
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3378 1689
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 3318 1659
SAGE Publications 2 3040 1520
Society for Neuroscience 2 5119 2559
AIP Publishing 1 1540 1540
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2444 2444
American Physiological Society 1 3612 3612
Brill 1 2558 2558
Copernicus GmbH 1 3209 3209
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1436 1436
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1190 1190
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2392 2392
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 1904 1904
International Wader Study Group 1 833 833
JCFCorp SG PTE LTD 1 1176 1176
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2009 2009
Nova Southeastern University 1 472 472
The Royal Society 1 2386 2386

Overview

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