Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains Heidelberg’s APC data for the 2016 and 2017 periods and provides additional data for 2015.
University Library Heidelberg is in charge of the Heidelberg University Open Access Publishing Fund.
Contact person is Dr. Jochen Apel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 180 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 277 029€ and the average fee is 1 539€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 80 | 126310 | 1579 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 41 | 67468 | 1646 |
| MDPI AG | 13 | 16423 | 1263 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 12 | 21182 | 1765 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 5700 | 1140 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 4 | 5278 | 1319 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 3212 | 803 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 5988 | 1996 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 5823 | 1941 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3151 | 1576 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2675 | 1338 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2280 | 1140 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1822 | 1822 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1316 | 1316 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2066 | 2066 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 595 | 595 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 448 | 448 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 698 | 698 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) | 1 | 1941 | 1941 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1106 | 1106 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
