University of Potsdam joins OpenAPC


We welcome the University of Potsdam as new contributing institution! Potsdam University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Marco Winkler.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by University of Potsdam contains information on publication fees paid in 2015.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 24 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 32 128€ and the average fee is 1 339€.

The following table shows the payments University of Potsdam has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 14082 1280
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 8752 1459
Nature Publishing Group 3 4159 1386
Springer Science + Business Media 2 2736 1368
IOP Publishing 2 2399 1200

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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