University of Würzburg reports its 2023 APC expenditures
12 Jun 2024The University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.
Würzburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Claudia Schober.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 282 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 749 971€ and the average fee is 2 659€.
The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2023.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 76 | 227788 | 2997 |
| MDPI AG | 58 | 140073 | 2415 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 53 | 137172 | 2588 |
| Elsevier BV | 30 | 83985 | 2800 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 21 | 47443 | 2259 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 18934 | 2367 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 6 | 16578 | 2763 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 11562 | 2891 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5172 | 1724 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 3691 | 1846 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 8206 | 4103 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 4361 | 2181 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 4441 | 2221 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 6642 | 3321 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3312 | 1656 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1642 | 1642 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1482 | 1482 |
| BMJ | 1 | 7859 | 7859 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 143 | 143 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4950 | 4950 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1476 | 1476 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2063 | 2063 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2490 | 2490 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 4247 | 4247 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 3192 | 3192 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1064 | 1064 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Würzburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
