University of Freiburg reports its 2016 APC expenditures


The University of Freiburg has updated its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

Freiburg University Library 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 Annette Scheiner.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 152 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 245 215€ and the average fee is 1 613€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 77 126949 1649
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 25 42379 1695
Frontiers Media SA 18 32003 1778
MDPI AG 8 9236 1155
Optical Society of America (OSA) 5 9137 1827
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3691 1846
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3383 1692
Pensoft Publishers 2 910 455
Wiley-Blackwell 2 2852 1426
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 357 357
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1820 1820
BMJ 1 1809 1809
Copernicus GmbH 1 1012 1012
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2166 2166
Informa UK Limited 1 2386 2386
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1848 1848
International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions 1 250 250
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1651 1651
S. Karger AG 1 755 755
Wildlife Biology 1 620 620

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg 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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