Ulm University joins OpenAPC


We welcome Ulm University as new contributing institution! The Communication and Information Center (kiz) of Ulm University 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 Uli Hahn.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by Ulm University contains information on publication fees paid in 2 years from 2014 to 2015.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 78 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 117 982€ and the average fee is 1 513€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 17 23943 1408
IOP Publishing 12 14558 1213
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 13632 1136
Springer Nature 10 24334 2433
Elsevier BV 8 14491 1811
Wiley-Blackwell 5 9520 1904
Nature Publishing Group 3 2812 938
AIP Publishing 2 2734 1367
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2468 2468
American Physiological Society 1 1449 1449
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 1 1333 1333
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1409 1409
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1308 1308
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1117 1117
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1469 1469
Science Publishing Group 1 260 260
Springer Science + Business Media 1 1142 1142

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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