University of Würzburg reports its 2017 APC expenditures


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

Würzburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Kristina Hanig.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 123 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 209 873€ and the average fee is 1 706€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 48 79734 1661
Frontiers Media SA 23 44755 1946
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 18 33600 1867
MDPI AG 8 10299 1287
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 7708 1927
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5724 1908
Elsevier BV 2 1548 774
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3163 1581
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3859 1930
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 2535 1267
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2274 2274
Copernicus GmbH 1 1606 1606
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 2378 2378
EARLI 1 238 238
eLife Sciences Organisation, Ltd. 1 2288 2288
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1072 1072
Microbiology Society 1 425 425
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 2070 2070
S. Karger AG 1 2143 2143
SAGE Publications 1 1601 1601
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 853 853

Overview

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