JGU Mainz reports its 2017 APC expenditures


The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (JGU) has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2017 period (plus some additional articles from 2016).

Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Karin Eckert.

Cost data

The new datasets cover publication fees for 104 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 154 725€ and the average fee is 1 488€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 33 59425 1801
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 19 29196 1537
Frontiers Media SA 8 17806 2226
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 7 909 130
MDPI AG 6 9655 1609
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 5 8059 1612
BMJ 3 4457 1486
Copernicus GmbH 3 4641 1547
IOP Publishing 2 1908 954
Universitaet Innsbruck - Innsbruck University Press 2 400 200
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1700 1700
AIP Publishing 1 1411 1411
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1119 1119
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1527 1527
Cogitatio 1 952 952
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 2378 2378
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 357 357
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 1 350 350
Horizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd. 1 231 231
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1790 1790
Juniper Publishers 1 956 956
Medknow 1 1896 1896
PeerJ 1 932 932
Sciedu Press 1 356 356
Scientia Socialis 1 494 494
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1821 1821

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JGU Mainz 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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