Heidelberg University updates its APC expenditures for 2016, 2017 and 2018


Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains Heidelberg’s APC data for the 2017 and 2018 periods and adds additional data for 2016.

The University Library Heidelberg 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 Dr. Jochen Apel.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 221 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 327 809€ and the average fee is 1 483€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 91 148349 1630
MDPI AG 26 30012 1154
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 25 38927 1557
Frontiers Media SA 21 33329 1587
Elsevier BV 9 8817 980
Copernicus GmbH 7 9835 1405
Wiley-Blackwell 7 11168 1595
BMJ 6 9120 1520
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 5 8344 1669
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 4116 1372
PeerJ 3 2368 789
Joule Inc. 2 2841 1421
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 2596 1298
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1666 833
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1785 1785
AME Publishing Company 1 889 889
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1598 1598
Cogitatio 1 952 952
Informa UK Limited 1 1898 1898
International Institute of Anticancer Research 1 574 574
Medknow 1 462 462
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1991 1991
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1488 1488
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 674 674
SAGE Publications 1 2011 2011
University of Chicago Press 1 1999 1999

Overview

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