We welcome the University of Freiburg as new contributing institution! Freiburg University Library 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 Annette Scheiner.
About the dataset
The initial dataset contributed by University of Freiburg contains information on publication fees paid in 5 years from 2011 to 2015.
Cost Data
The dataset covers publication fees for 471 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 626 480€ and the average fee is 1 330€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 117 | 167464 | 1431 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 114 | 149204 | 1309 |
| Springer Nature | 66 | 103942 | 1575 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 46 | 69977 | 1521 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 22 | 27526 | 1251 |
| MDPI AG | 20 | 15345 | 767 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 14 | 12970 | 926 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 10 | 15150 | 1515 |
| IOP Publishing | 7 | 7745 | 1106 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 6 | 4321 | 720 |
| BMJ | 4 | 7171 | 1793 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 4 | 7180 | 1795 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 2016 | 504 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6611 | 1653 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 3 | 3734 | 1245 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 4989 | 1663 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 2910 | 970 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 3 | 3274 | 1091 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 2 | 500 | 250 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1250 | 625 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 2 | 416 | 208 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1820 | 1820 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 495 | 495 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 596 | 596 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 287 | 287 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1524 | 1524 |
| Interciencia Association | 1 | 937 | 937 |
| Joule Inc. | 1 | 1463 | 1463 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Libertas Academica, Ltd. | 1 | 1522 | 1522 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 993 | 993 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 671 | 671 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 476 | 476 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 357 | 357 |
| Rural Outreach Programm | 1 | 345 | 345 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
