University of Potsdam reports its 2017 APC expenditures


The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.

Potsdam University Library 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 Marco Winkler.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 53 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 78 435€ and the average fee is 1 480€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 14 23461 1676
Springer Nature 11 17528 1593
Copernicus GmbH 7 9889 1413
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 7778 1556
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3708 1854
IOP Publishing 2 2599 1299
MDPI AG 2 1724 862
BMJ 1 2028 2028
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 227 227
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2303 2303
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1224 1224
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1956 1956
PAGEPress Publications 1 416 416
SAGE Publications 1 915 915
The Company of Biologists 1 1684 1684
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 401 401
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

Overview

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