Münster University joins OpenAPC


We welcome Münster University as new contributing institution! Münster University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Viola Voß.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by Münster University contains information on publication fees paid from 2011 to 2016.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 325 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 381 287€ and the average fee is 1 173€.

The following table and plots show the payments Münster University Library has made to publishers from 2011 to 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Science + Business Media 107 141268 1320
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 84 92516 1101
Springer Nature 27 34285 1270
Frontiers Media SA 24 26360 1098
Optical Society of America (OSA) 21 26549 1264
MDPI AG 9 8175 908
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 7 6729 961
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 7333 1222
Copernicus GmbH 4 4130 1033
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 4011 1003
Informa UK Limited 3 843 281
International Scientific Literature 3 2167 722
IOP Publishing 3 3183 1061
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 2 2678 1339
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 1788 894
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 2303 1151
Elsevier BV 2 1423 712
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 2463 1232
Joule Inc. 2 1791 895
Wiley-Blackwell 2 2789 1395
American Society for Microbiology 1 359 359
Amsterdam University Press 1 476 476
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. 1 1798 1798
Genetics Society of America 1 877 877
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1781 1781
Nature Publishing Group 1 1245 1245
SAGE Publications 1 922 922
Thieme Publishing Group 1 596 596
University of Uludag 1 450 450

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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