University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures


The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures, the lastest contribution provides more articles for the 2019 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 39 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 61 356€ and the average fee is 1 573€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 22061 2006
MDPI AG 5 6657 1331
Springer Nature 5 8152 1630
Copernicus GmbH 3 3848 1283
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 2610 870
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 3963 1321
Informa UK Limited 2 3014 1507
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3459 1729
BMJ 1 1473 1473
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2008 2008
IOP Publishing 1 1428 1428
SAGE Publications 1 970 970
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1714 1714

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg 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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