University of Oldenburg updates its 2016 APC expenditures


The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides price updates and additional data for the 2016 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost Data

With 14 new articles included, the dataset now covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 63 175€ and the average fee is 1 071€.

The following table and plots show the payments the BIS has made to publishers in 2016 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 17 23820 1401
Springer Nature 7 7744 1106
MDPI AG 6 7264 1211
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 6502 1300
SAGE Publications 5 2198 440
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 1805 602
European Optical Society 2 800 400
IOP Publishing 2 2685 1342
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 472 472
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1377 1377
BMJ 1 1520 1520
Botanical Society of America 1 313 313
Copernicus GmbH 1 1339 1339
Elsevier BV 1 1218 1218
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1361 1361
Medip Academy 1 63 63
Mongabay 1 230 230
PAGEPress Publications 1 500 500
PeerJ 1 622 622
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1342 1342

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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