Bielefeld University updates its 2016 APC expenditures


Bielefeld University has provided its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.

Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dirk Pieper.

Cost data

Bielefeld’s APC expenditures for 2016 include 86 articles, amounting to 115 085€ and an average fee of 1 338€.

The following table shows the payments Bielefeld University Library has made to publishers in 2016:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 33 44748 1356
Frontiers Media SA 19 27223 1433
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 16021 1335
American Society for Microbiology 6 3611 602
MDPI AG 6 8556 1426
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3800 1900
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3277 1639
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1992 1992
innsbruck university press 1 238 238
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1309 1309
PeerJ 1 638 638
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 1291 1291
The Company of Biologists 1 2380 2380

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Bielefeld University now looks as follows:

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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