Ruhr Universität Bochum reports its 2016 APC expenditures


The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

The University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme since 2014.

Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 94 454€ and the average fee is 1 601€.

The following table shows the payments Bochum University Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 19 33213 1748
Springer Nature 15 23850 1590
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 14 20950 1496
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 2821 1410
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 2 1663 831
American Society for Microbiology 1 2648 2648
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1568 1568
International Scientific Literature 1 1064 1064
MDPI AG 1 1501 1501
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1705 1705
SAGE Publications 1 2022 2022
Schweizerbart 1 1449 1449

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB 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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