The Ruhr Universität Bochum has joined openapc.github.io and is sharing its expenditures for publications in Open Access journals. The University Library is in charge of the Open Access Publication Funds of the university, which has been receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme since 2014.
Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel oa@rub.de.
Cost data
The data set covers publication fees for 25 Open Access journal articles paid in 2014. Total expenditure was 27 689€ and the average fee paid 1 108€.