The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 and 2017 periods.
The JLU 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 Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 98 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 161 500€ and the average fee is 1 648€.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers in 2016 and 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 35 | 57410 | 1640 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 33043 | 2542 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 14825 | 1853 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 7 | 10471 | 1496 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 6 | 2385 | 397 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 7092 | 1182 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 5619 | 1873 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 3 | 9317 | 3106 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 3 | 6560 | 2187 |
| BMJ | 2 | 4178 | 2089 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3531 | 1765 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 2 | 1000 | 500 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2243 | 1121 |
| Annex Publishers, LLC | 1 | 97 | 97 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 363 | 363 |
| Elmer Press, Inc. | 1 | 605 | 605 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 537 | 537 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 361 | 361 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1862 | 1862 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
