University of Bremen joins OpenAPC


We welcome the University of Bremen as new contributing institution! The State and University Library Bremen 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 Benjamin Ahlborn.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by University of Bremen contains information on publication fees paid in 6 years from 2011 to 2016.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 264 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 335 873€ and the average fee is 1 272€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 130 158354 1218
Springer Science + Business Media 38 44687 1176
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 31 40394 1303
Frontiers Media SA 19 33582 1767
Springer Nature 13 19424 1494
MDPI AG 11 17248 1568
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 3218 804
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 3 1795 598
American Physical Society (APS) 2 3108 1554
Informa UK Limited 2 1869 935
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3020 1510
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1548 1548
BMJ 1 2320 2320
IOP Publishing 1 1285 1285
Jacobs Publishers 1 217 217
OMICS Publishing Group 1 681 681
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1308 1308
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 789 789
SAGE Publications 1 575 575
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 450 450

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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