University of Würzburg updates its 2015 APC expenditures


University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution provides data for the 2015 period.

Würzburg 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 person is Kristina Hanig.

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 95 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 139 508€ and the average fee is 1 469€.

The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2015.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Science + Business Media 34 53322 1568
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 25 38314 1533
Frontiers Media SA 11 19079 1734
MDPI AG 6 9121 1520
S. Karger AG 2 2612 1306
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 2535 1267
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 1169 585
The Company of Biologists 1 1480 1480
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 631 631
Nature Publishing Group 1 1386 1386
MedCrave Group, LLC 1 1087 1087
JCDR Research and Publications 1 171 171
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1379 1379
IOP Publishing 1 1285 1285
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1906 1906
Global Network for Geospatial Health 1 244 244
Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press) 1 806 806
Annex Publishers, LLC 1 792 792
American Society for Microbiology 1 532 532
AIP Publishing 1 1658 1658

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for University of Würzburg 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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