University of Göttingen has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2012 and 2015 periods.
The Göttingen State and 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 Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.
Cost Data
The first new dataset extends Göttingen’s contribution for the last year to 234 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 357 859€ and the average fee is 1 529€.
The following table shows the payments the Göttingen State and University Library has made to publishers in 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 81 | 134081 | 1655 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 53 | 77830 | 1468 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 31 | 45180 | 1457 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 12 | 14261 | 1188 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 13244 | 1655 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 10666 | 1333 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 7685 | 1537 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 8229 | 1646 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 15118 | 3024 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 6079 | 1520 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 2104 | 1052 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 2 | 2895 | 1447 |
| BMJ | 2 | 4116 | 2058 |
| WJG Press, Baishideng Publ. Group | 1 | 1362 | 1362 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 424 | 424 |
| ScienceOpen | 1 | 780 | 780 |
| Research Institute for Progression of Knowledge. | 1 | 248 | 248 |
| Mongabay | 1 | 263 | 263 |
| Jacobs Publishers | 1 | 561 | 561 |
| ISPUB | 1 | 287 | 287 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 764 | 764 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 3054 | 3054 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3510 | 3510 |
| Elmer Press, Inc. | 1 | 303 | 303 |
| Cloud Publications | 1 | 344 | 344 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 746 | 746 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1047 | 1047 |
The second new dataset covers publication fees for 106 articles, which the fund covered in 2012. Total expenditure amounts to 120 058€ and the average fee is 1 133€.
The following table shows the payments the Göttingen State and University Library has made to publishers in 2012.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 44 | 55689 | 1266 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 26 | 30851 | 1187 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 8 | 9901 | 1238 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 4931 | 986 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 2809 | 562 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 4221 | 1407 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 1955 | 652 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 863 | 432 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 1662 | 831 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 2 | 775 | 387 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 872 | 872 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 303 | 303 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1391 | 1391 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1075 | 1075 |
| Academia Scientiarum Bohemoslovaca | 1 | 762 | 762 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for University of Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
