University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 periods.
Würzburg 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 Kristina Hanig.
Cost Data
The first new dataset covers publication fees for 76 articles from the 2011 period. Total expenditure amounts to 81 955€ and the average fee is 1 078€.
The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2011.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture | 1 | 166 | 166 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 176 | 176 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 975 | 975 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 860 | 860 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 1 | 583 | 583 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 3509 | 877 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 427 | 427 |
| International Scientific Literature | 1 | 793 | 793 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 272 | 136 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1489 | 1489 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2713 | 1357 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 28 | 32831 | 1173 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1433 | 1433 |
| Science and Engineering Publ. Co. | 1 | 188 | 188 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 264 | 264 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 29 | 35276 | 1216 |
The second new dataset covers publication fees for 84 articles from the 2012 period. Total expenditure amounts to 102 652€ and the average fee is 1 222€.
The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2012.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 730 | 730 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 3265 | 1633 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 11 | 15363 | 1397 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 1022 | 511 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 273 | 136 |
| MDPI AG | 3 | 3638 | 1213 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3708 | 1854 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1267 | 1267 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 24 | 27796 | 1158 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 34 | 42392 | 1247 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1866 | 1866 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1333 | 1333 |
The last new dataset covers publication fees for 102 articles from the 2013 period. Total expenditure amounts to 123 968€ and the average fee is 1 215€.
The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2013.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) | 1 | 111 | 111 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 574 | 574 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 715 | 715 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1633 | 1633 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 12870 | 1430 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 2552 | 638 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 1636 | 818 |
| MDPI AG | 4 | 4916 | 1229 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 1 | 1245 | 1245 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 836 | 836 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 922 | 922 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 30 | 36549 | 1218 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1035 | 1035 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 40 | 52709 | 1318 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1618 | 1618 |
| Würzburg University Press | 2 | 833 | 416 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for University of Würzburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
