The University of Bayreuth has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.
Bayreuth 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 Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 36 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 42 840€ and the average fee is 1 190€.
The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2016.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 14 | 13459 | 961 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 6630 | 1326 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 7744 | 1549 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 4370 | 1457 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1353 | 1353 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 449 | 449 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 1 | 699 | 699 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1717 | 1717 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1965 | 1965 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 1311 | 1311 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 298 | 298 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
