New APC data harvested from Saarland University

New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Saarland University.

The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) decided to make data on APC expenditures directly available in their institutional repository, where it can be harvested by OpenAPC on a regular basis via OAI-PMH.

The SULB is also in charge of the central publication fund at Saarland University, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Ulrich Herb.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 20 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 33,804€ and the average fee is 1,690€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 7 12934 1848
Frontiers Media SA 3 3698 1233
Elsevier BV 2 2728 1364
Informa UK Limited 2 3897 1949
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3051 1526
Springer Nature 2 3671 1835
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1918 1918
Springer Science + Business Media 1 1907 1907

Overview

The overall APC data for Saarland University 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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