University of Tübingen joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen as new contributing institution! Tübingen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Ute Holzwarth.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by University of Tübingen contains information on publication fees paid in 3 years from 2013 to 2015.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 400 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 535 437€ and the average fee is 1 339€.

The following table shows the payments the University of Tübingen has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 99 107749 1088
Frontiers Media SA 85 112731 1326
Springer Science + Business Media 70 106374 1520
Springer Nature 40 61248 1531
S. Karger AG 37 63981 1729
MDPI AG 19 20550 1082
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 9 7802 867
Copernicus GmbH 5 5198 1040
Elsevier BV 5 7488 1498
OMICS Publishing Group 4 4486 1121
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 5018 1673
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3531 1765
IOP Publishing 2 2570 1285
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3468 1734
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4899 2450
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 653 653
ALTEX Edition 1 2000 2000
Austin Publishing group 1 1786 1786
BMJ 1 1380 1380
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1371 1371
Impact Journals, LLC 1 1986 1986
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1 562 562
International Scientific Literature 1 892 892
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 150 150
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1858 1858
Libertas Academica, Ltd. 1 1687 1687
Nature Publishing Group 1 1245 1245
omics international 1 863 863
Openventio Publishers 1 632 632
PeerJ 1 897 897
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 381 381

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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