Leipzig University Library finances the publication of research findings in Open Access journals through its publication fund. The fund is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Leipzig University Library has joined openapc.github.io and is now sharing its expenditures for publications in Open Access journals.
Contact person is Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost data
The dataset covers publication fees for 60 articles, which the fund covered in 2014 and in this year. Total expenditure amounts to 79 603€ and the average fee is 1 327€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to the publishers (including taxes)
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 24 | 35975 | 1499 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 18 | 21546 | 1197 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 5 | 6554 | 1311 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3515 | 1758 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2183 | 1091 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1345 | 1345 |
| Thieme Publishing Group | 1 | 976 | 976 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| Medknow | 1 | 379 | 379 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 411 | 411 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 341 | 341 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 1 | 1333 | 1333 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1914 | 1914 |
Fees paid per publisher
Average costs per year
Average costs per publisher
