Leipzig University has provided us with an update of its 2015 APC expenditures.
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 update provides some corrections to Leipzig’s 2015 APC data and extends the dataset. It now contains 114 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 165 071€ and the average fee is 1 448€.
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 | 41 | 62446 | 1523 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 32 | 47087 | 1471 |
| 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 | 5397 | 1349 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 4705 | 1568 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 4177 | 1392 |
| Informa Healthcare | 2 | 1924 | 962 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 2 | 2304 | 1152 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 3170 | 1585 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| Kernel Press UG (haftungsbeschrankt) | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2047 | 2047 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 1794 | 1794 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1670 | 1670 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Co., Limited (formerly WJG Press) | 1 | 1296 | 1296 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Co. Limited | 1 | 2055 | 2055 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 557 | 557 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1670 | 1670 |
Overview
With the recent update 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)
