The University of Göttingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.
The Göttingen State and 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 persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 237 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 379 379€ and the average fee is 1 601€.
The following table shows the payments the SUB Göttingen has made to publishers in 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 57 | 102713 | 1802 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 46 | 84238 | 1831 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 37 | 62338 | 1685 |
| MDPI AG | 18 | 19764 | 1098 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 15 | 19924 | 1328 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 10352 | 1725 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 7417 | 1236 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 7925 | 1585 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 7956 | 1591 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 5 | 6149 | 1230 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 3 | 9417 | 3139 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 4548 | 1516 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 3 | 3435 | 1145 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 4819 | 1606 |
| BMJ | 2 | 2665 | 1333 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1523 | 762 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 3829 | 1915 |
| International Cardiovascular Forum Journal | 2 | 1071 | 536 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1145 | 573 |
| American Research Institute for Policy Development | 1 | 218 | 218 |
| Austin Publ. Group | 1 | 1254 | 1254 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1582 | 1582 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 2273 | 2273 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 1 | 559 | 559 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 1099 | 1099 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 3451 | 3451 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1259 | 1259 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1203 | 1203 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 119 | 119 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 887 | 887 |
| Wildlife Biology | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
