Bielefeld University has changed its workflows and will now provide APC data directly via its institutional repository PUB. An initial data set has been harvested via OAI-PMH.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 77 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 114 756€ and the average fee is 1 490€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 34 | 47419 | 1395 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 15 | 31110 | 2074 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 13378 | 1672 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 4540 | 757 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 3 | 5979 | 1993 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 3 | 3059 | 1020 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 3641 | 1821 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 630 | 630 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1495 | 1495 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1601 | 1601 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 738 | 738 |
| Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1 | 1026 | 1026 |
| Scientific & Academic Publishing | 1 | 140 | 140 |
Overview
With the first set of harvest data included, the overall APC data for Bielefeld now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
