Leipzig University reports its 2016 APC expenditures


Leipzig University has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.

Leipzig 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.

Contact person is Dr. Astrid Vieler.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 97 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 142 968€ and the average fee is 1 474€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 42 67499 1607
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 25 39600 1584
MDPI AG 6 8206 1368
Wiley-Blackwell 5 4885 977
Elsevier BV 4 4540 1135
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 4072 1018
AIP Publishing 2 2936 1468
Copernicus GmbH 2 357 178
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1805 1805
BMJ 1 1427 1427
Frontiers Media SA 1 1687 1687
International Scientific Literature 1 1180 1180
IOP Publishing 1 1392 1392
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1479 1479
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1901 1901

Overview

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