University of Oldenburg joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg as new contributing institution! The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 45 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 47 117€ and the average fee is 1 047€.

The following table and plots show the payments the BIS has made to publishers in 2016 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 12 16747 1396
Springer Nature 6 6348 1058
MDPI AG 5 6088 1218
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 5137 1284
SAGE Publications 4 1716 429
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1210 605
BMJ 1 1520 1520
Botanical Society of America 1 313 313
Copernicus GmbH 1 1339 1339
Elsevier BV 1 1218 1218
European Optical Society 1 350 350
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1361 1361
IOP Publishing 1 1014 1014
Medip Academy 1 63 63
Mongabay 1 230 230
PAGEPress Publications 1 500 500
PeerJ 1 622 622
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1342 1342

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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