Ulm University updates its 2016 and 2017 APC expenditures


Ulm University has updated its APC expenditures, providing additional data for 2016 and new data for the 2017 period.

Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Uli Hahn.

Cost data

The new 2017 dataset covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 101 079€ and the average fee is 1 713€.

The following table shows the payments Ulm University Library has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 27 51175 1895
Springer Nature 9 14946 1661
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 12108 1513
IOP Publishing 4 5346 1336
MDPI AG 3 3597 1199
Elsevier BV 2 3202 1601
AIP Publishing 1 1490 1490
BMJ 1 2856 2856
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2510 2510
Informa UK Limited 1 1410 1410
Japan Epidemiological Association 1 446 446
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1992 1992

Overview

With the two recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Ulm now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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