Bielefeld University shifts to APC data harvesting


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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