The University of Freiburg has updated its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.
Freiburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Annette Scheiner.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 152 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 245 215€ and the average fee is 1 613€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2016.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 77 | 126949 | 1649 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 25 | 42379 | 1695 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 18 | 32003 | 1778 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 9236 | 1155 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 9137 | 1827 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3691 | 1846 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3383 | 1692 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 910 | 455 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2852 | 1426 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 357 | 357 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1820 | 1820 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1809 | 1809 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2166 | 2166 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2386 | 2386 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1848 | 1848 |
| International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1651 | 1651 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 755 | 755 |
| Wildlife Biology | 1 | 620 | 620 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
