Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains Heidelberg’s APC data for the 2017 and 2018 periods and adds additional data for 2016.
The University Library Heidelberg 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 Dr. Jochen Apel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 221 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 327 809€ and the average fee is 1 483€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 91 | 148349 | 1630 |
| MDPI AG | 26 | 30012 | 1154 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 25 | 38927 | 1557 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 21 | 33329 | 1587 |
| Elsevier BV | 9 | 8817 | 980 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 9835 | 1405 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 11168 | 1595 |
| BMJ | 6 | 9120 | 1520 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 5 | 8344 | 1669 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 4116 | 1372 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 2368 | 789 |
| Joule Inc. | 2 | 2841 | 1421 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 2596 | 1298 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1666 | 833 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 889 | 889 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1598 | 1598 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1898 | 1898 |
| International Institute of Anticancer Research | 1 | 574 | 574 |
| Medknow | 1 | 462 | 462 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1991 | 1991 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 674 | 674 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2011 | 2011 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
