The University of Göttingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.
The Göttingen State and 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 persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 199 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 316 952€ and the average fee is 1 593€.
The following table shows the payments the SUB Göttingen has made to publishers in 2016.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 61 | 104335 | 1710 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 49 | 82769 | 1689 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 28 | 50706 | 1811 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 12257 | 1226 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 12359 | 1373 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 6 | 1989 | 332 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 6 | 4583 | 764 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 3480 | 696 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 11002 | 3667 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 3 | 9359 | 3120 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 4972 | 1657 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1028 | 514 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 3770 | 1885 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 2 | 2384 | 1192 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1591 | 1591 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1803 | 1803 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 643 | 643 |
| European Centre for Research, Training and Development, United Kingdom | 1 | 139 | 139 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1976 | 1976 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 651 | 651 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 370 | 370 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 763 | 763 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
