University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures


The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides additional articles for the 2018 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 44 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 62 725€ and the average fee is 1 426€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 20932 1903
Springer Nature 9 12150 1350
MDPI AG 5 4904 981
Copernicus GmbH 3 3984 1328
BMJ 2 3213 1606
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2989 1494
SAGE Publications 2 1563 782
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 486 486
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1453 1453
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1902 1902
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1488 1488
Hikari, Ltd. 1 327 327
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 127 127
Society for Neuroscience 1 2007 2007
University of California Press 1 1416 1416
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1964 1964
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1821 1821

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg 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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