JGU Mainz reports its 2014 APC expenditures


The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2014 period.

Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Karin Eckert.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 69 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 83 039€ and the average fee is 1 203€.

The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2014.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 23 25002 1087
Springer Science + Business Media 17 23841 1402
Frontiers Media SA 11 13903 1264
MDPI AG 6 8247 1375
BMJ 2 1967 983
Impact Journals, LLC 2 3173 1587
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3267 1634
Copernicus GmbH 1 828 828
Elsevier BV 1 347 347
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1106 1106
Horizon Research Publishing 1 158 158
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 120 120
IOP Publishing 1 1080 1080

Overview

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