Leipzig University has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.
Leipzig 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.
Contact person is Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 97 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 142 968€ and the average fee is 1 474€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2016.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 42 | 67499 | 1607 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 25 | 39600 | 1584 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 8206 | 1368 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 4885 | 977 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 4540 | 1135 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 4072 | 1018 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 2936 | 1468 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 357 | 178 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1805 | 1805 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1427 | 1427 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 1 | 1687 | 1687 |
| International Scientific Literature | 1 | 1180 | 1180 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1479 | 1479 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1901 | 1901 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
