JGU Mainz joins OpenAPC


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

Contact person is Karin Eckert.

Cost data

The initial data covers publication fees for 76 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 122 233€ and the average fee is 1 608€.

The following table and plots show the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 29 45235 1560
Frontiers Media SA 13 24903 1916
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 18524 1425
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 6456 1614
Copernicus GmbH 3 4641 1547
Impact Journals, LLC 2 4410 2205
MDPI AG 2 2481 1241
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4260 2130
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1792 1792
BMJ 1 1900 1900
Elsevier BV 1 1127 1127
Informa UK Limited 1 1600 1600
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 110 110
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2026 2026
Society for Neuroscience 1 1311 1311
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1457 1457

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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