The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.
The University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme since 2014.
Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 94 454€ and the average fee is 1 601€.
The following table shows the payments Bochum University Library has made to publishers in 2016.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 33213 | 1748 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 23850 | 1590 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 14 | 20950 | 1496 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2821 | 1410 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 1663 | 831 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2648 | 2648 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1568 | 1568 |
| International Scientific Literature | 1 | 1064 | 1064 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1501 | 1501 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1705 | 1705 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1449 | 1449 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
