The Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.
Tübingen 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 Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 183 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 266 231€ and the average fee is 1 455€.
The following table shows the payments Tübingen University Library has made to publishers in 2016.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 59 | 91643 | 1553 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 37 | 52061 | 1407 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 33 | 55772 | 1690 |
| MDPI AG | 9 | 10330 | 1148 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 6 | 8196 | 1366 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 4945 | 989 |
| S. Karger AG | 4 | 5772 | 1443 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 3 | 4840 | 1613 |
| German Medical Science | 3 | 225 | 75 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 3445 | 1723 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3929 | 1964 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 416 | 208 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2913 | 1457 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 835 | 835 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1831 | 1831 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1160 | 1160 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 1131 | 1131 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1698 | 1698 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1669 | 1669 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1624 | 1624 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1884 | 1884 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1915 | 1915 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 615 | 615 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 340 | 340 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1950 | 1950 |
| Sciaccess Publishers | 1 | 832 | 832 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 833 | 833 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Tübingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
