JLU Gießen reports its 2016 and 2017 APC expenditures


The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 and 2017 periods.

The JLU 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 Florian Ruckelshausen.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 98 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 161 500€ and the average fee is 1 648€.

The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers in 2016 and 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 35 57410 1640
Frontiers Media SA 13 33043 2542
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 14825 1853
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 7 10471 1496
American Society for Microbiology 6 2385 397
MDPI AG 6 7092 1182
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 5619 1873
Impact Journals, LLC 3 9317 3106
OMICS Publishing Group 3 6560 2187
BMJ 2 4178 2089
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3531 1765
PAGEPress Publications 2 1000 500
Wiley-Blackwell 2 2243 1121
Annex Publishers, LLC 1 97 97
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 363 363
Elmer Press, Inc. 1 605 605
Elsevier BV 1 537 537
SAGE Publications 1 361 361
Society for Neuroscience 1 1862 1862

Overview

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