The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.
The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg 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 Markus Putnings.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 168 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 259 410€ and the average fee is 1 544€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 63 | 100654 | 1598 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 33 | 56562 | 1714 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 20 | 33001 | 1650 |
| MDPI AG | 17 | 20662 | 1215 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 10761 | 1345 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 7 | 8715 | 1245 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 4 | 7429 | 1857 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 2615 | 1308 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2785 | 1392 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 1307 | 653 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1600 | 1600 |
| Hikari, Ltd. | 1 | 570 | 570 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1783 | 1783 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1608 | 1608 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1756 | 1756 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1929 | 1929 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 649 | 649 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1809 | 1809 |
| Sciaccess Publishers LLC | 1 | 1215 | 1215 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
