The Ruhr Universität Bochum has provided its APC expenditures for the 2015 period.
The 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 since 2014.
Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 45 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 64 262€ and the average fee is 1 428€.
The following table shows the payments Bochum University Library has made to publishers in 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 14 | 22248 | 1589 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 11 | 16305 | 1482 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 7259 | 1452 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 3 | 4159 | 1386 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 3521 | 1760 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1224 | 1224 |
| The Optical Society | 1 | 2042 | 2042 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 853 | 853 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 922 | 922 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1714 | 1714 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1729 | 1729 |
| Esmon Publicidad | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 299 | 299 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Ruhr Universität Bochum now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
