Münster University reports its 2017 APC expenditures


Münster University has provided its APC expenditures for the 2017 period.

The Münster 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 since 2014.

Contact person is Viola Voß.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 57 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 87 430€ and the average fee is 1 534€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 19 31084 1636
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 16003 1600
Frontiers Media SA 9 16236 1804
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 2 2066 1033
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 3044 1522
Elsevier BV 2 2077 1039
IOP Publishing 2 3249 1624
MDPI AG 2 3022 1511
Genetics Society of America 1 1890 1890
Herald Scholarly Open Access 1 1170 1170
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1758 1758
Informa UK Limited 1 744 744
Joule Inc. 1 1962 1962
Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 714 714
PeerJ 1 434 434
SAGE Publications 1 521 521
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1457 1457

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Münster 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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