University of Bayreuth updates its 2015 APC expenditures


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

Bayreuth 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 persons are Clemens Engelhardt and Stephanie Kroiß

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 35 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 41 206€ and the average fee is 1 177€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 7 10621 1517
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 4982 1246
Nature Publishing Group 4 5404 1351
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5086 1695
Springer Science + Business Media 2 4052 2026
IOP Publishing 2 2184 1092
Frontiers Media SA 2 1415 707
Copernicus GmbH 2 2409 1204
Sciedu Press 1 311 311
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1666 1666
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 197 197
International Biogeography Society 1 224 224
IJLTER.org 1 141 141
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 528 528
Elsevier BV 1 267 267
EJBSS 1 268 268
AIP Publishing 1 1453 1453

Overview

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