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 283 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 726,824€ and the average fee is 2,568€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 100 258904 2589
MDPI AG 72 170285 2365
Frontiers Media SA 35 100557 2873
Wiley-Blackwell 35 90044 2573
Oxford University Press (OUP) 9 33045 3672
Elsevier BV 7 17572 2510
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 9972 1994
Informa UK Limited 4 12679 3170
AIP Publishing 2 2712 1356
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 6149 3075
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3954 1977
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1541 1541
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2962 2962
Copernicus GmbH 1 1104 1104
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 3355 3355
EMBO 1 3573 3573
German Medical Science 1 800 800
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1899 1899
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 2215 2215
IOP Publishing 1 2351 2351
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1149 1149

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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