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 25 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 38 132€ and the average fee is 1 525€.

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 8 15788 1974
MDPI AG 7 7052 1007
Springer Nature 3 5217 1739
SAGE Publications 2 1921 960
BMJ 1 1809 1809
Copernicus GmbH 1 985 985
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1902 1902
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1920 1920
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1538 1538

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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