The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides additional articles both for the 2016 and 2017 periods.
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 19 new articles included, the dataset now covers publication fees for 78 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 89 818€ and the average fee is 1 152€.
The following table and plots show the payments the BIS has made to publishers in 2016 and 2017 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 22 | 32732 | 1488 |
| Springer Nature | 12 | 14494 | 1208 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 9952 | 1244 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 9320 | 1331 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 2198 | 440 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 1805 | 602 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2142 | 1071 |
| European Optical Society | 2 | 800 | 400 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2685 | 1342 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 472 | 472 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1288 | 1288 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1377 | 1377 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1520 | 1520 |
| Botanical Society of America | 1 | 313 | 313 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1218 | 1218 |
| Excellent Publishers | 1 | 94 | 94 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1361 | 1361 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1441 | 1441 |
| Medip Academy | 1 | 63 | 63 |
| Mongabay | 1 | 230 | 230 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1850 | 1850 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 622 | 622 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1342 | 1342 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
