The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2017 period.
The 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 since 2014.
Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 74 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 116 382€ and the average fee is 1 573€.
The following table shows the payments the RUB has made to publishers in 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 22 | 35946 | 1634 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 19944 | 1534 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 12 | 22520 | 1877 |
| MDPI AG | 7 | 8033 | 1148 |
| National Speleological Society | 6 | 10087 | 1681 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 1933 | 644 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 4622 | 1541 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1809 | 1809 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1825 | 1825 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1981 | 1981 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1955 | 1955 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1463 | 1463 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1009 | 1009 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1862 | 1862 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
