We welcome the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) as new contributing institution! The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg 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 Markus Putnings.
About the dataset
The initial dataset contributed by the FAU contains information on publication fees paid in 4 years from 2012 to 2015.
Cost Data
The dataset covers publication fees for 402 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 551 812€ and the average fee is 1 373€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 79 | 111955 | 1417 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 78 | 100438 | 1288 |
| Springer Nature | 48 | 70651 | 1472 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 29 | 43187 | 1489 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 29 | 46813 | 1614 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 27 | 29281 | 1084 |
| MDPI AG | 26 | 36995 | 1423 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 18 | 20242 | 1125 |
| IOP Publishing | 10 | 12237 | 1224 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 9 | 17046 | 1894 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 6 | 11213 | 1869 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 6 | 7468 | 1245 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 9457 | 1576 |
| S. Karger AG | 5 | 8301 | 1660 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 6437 | 1287 |
| BMJ | 3 | 5580 | 1860 |
| ESG | 3 | 1785 | 595 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 2 | 2945 | 1473 |
| Hikari, Ltd. | 2 | 1458 | 729 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1439 | 1439 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 1942 | 1942 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 285 | 285 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1208 | 1208 |
| International Scientific Literature | 1 | 1112 | 1112 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| MultiMed Inc. | 1 | 548 | 548 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 543 | 543 |
| Sciencedomain International | 1 | 124 | 124 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 368 | 368 |
| World Academic Publishing | 1 | 352 | 352 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
