Leipzig University has provided its APC expenditures for the 2015 period.
Leipzig 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 Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 109 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 157 574€ and the average fee is 1 446€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 37 | 56415 | 1525 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 32 | 47277 | 1477 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 7064 | 1766 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 4 | 5545 | 1386 |
| MDPI AG | 4 | 4186 | 1047 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 4365 | 1091 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 5718 | 1429 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 4705 | 1568 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 4177 | 1392 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 2 | 2466 | 1233 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| Kernel Press UG (haftungsbeschrankt) | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2047 | 2047 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Informa Healthcare | 1 | 496 | 496 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1670 | 1670 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1196 | 1196 |
| BioMed Central | 1 | 1661 | 1661 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press) | 1 | 1296 | 1296 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 557 | 557 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1670 | 1670 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Leipzig University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
