The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2015 period.
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 new dataset covers publication fees for 69 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 96 907€ and the average fee is 1 404€.
The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 23 | 36656 | 1594 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 19232 | 1282 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 15573 | 1557 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 2483 | 828 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 1493 | 747 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3154 | 1577 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2075 | 1038 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2888 | 1444 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 354 | 354 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1843 | 1843 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1178 | 1178 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 178 | 178 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1295 | 1295 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1933 | 1933 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1812 | 1812 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1260 | 1260 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
