Same day, another contribution: Bielefeld University has also provided its APC expenditures for the 2015 period.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 103 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 135 518€ and the average fee is 1 316€.
The following table shows the payments Bielefeld University Library has made to publishers in 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 38 | 52919 | 1393 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 25 | 30529 | 1221 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 19 | 25694 | 1352 |
| MDPI AG | 5 | 5581 | 1116 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 4 | 5544 | 1386 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 3747 | 1249 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 2640 | 1320 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 3368 | 1684 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 1 | 1630 | 1630 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 583 | 583 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 446 | 446 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1445 | 1445 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Bielefeld University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
