The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2013 period.
Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Karin Eckert.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 71 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 77 085€ and the average fee is 1 086€.
The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2013.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 25 | 27136 | 1085 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 18 | 25988 | 1444 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 9004 | 900 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 3788 | 947 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 4 | 493 | 123 |
| MDPI AG | 3 | 3112 | 1037 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 1058 | 1058 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1486 | 1486 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1178 | 1178 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 681 | 681 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 460 | 460 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 701 | 701 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
