Leipzig University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.
Leipzig 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 Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 145 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 225 015€ and the average fee is 1 552€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 64 | 102890 | 1608 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 20 | 35795 | 1790 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 18 | 28631 | 1591 |
| MDPI AG | 14 | 19967 | 1426 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 5209 | 1042 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 6012 | 1202 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 3118 | 1039 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3451 | 1726 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 3651 | 1825 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 2 | 3645 | 1822 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 2362 | 1181 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 2297 | 1148 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 406 | 406 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1333 | 1333 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1901 | 1901 |
| Schattauer GmbH | 1 | 1767 | 1767 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
