University of Siegen reports 2022 data

The University of Siegen has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.

Siegen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person for the data set is Lena Vinnemann.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 31 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 70,515€ and the average fee is 2,275€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 12 33754 2813
Frontiers Media SA 5 12992 2598
MDPI AG 5 8684 1737
Elsevier BV 2 2379 1190
Optica Publishing Group 2 2688 1344
Copernicus GmbH 1 1232 1232
Informa UK Limited 1 710 710
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 1904 1904
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2030 2030
Wiley-Blackwell 1 4141 4141

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Siegen 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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