Goethe University Frankfurt joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Goethe University Frankfurt as new contributing institution!

The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg 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 Roland Wagner.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by Frankfurt University Library covers publication fees for 77 articles published in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 133 747€ and the average fee is 1 737€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 16 28905 1807
Frontiers Media SA 12 22914 1910
MDPI AG 11 12269 1115
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 10514 1502
Impact Journals, LLC 4 13412 3353
Elsevier BV 3 10510 3503
Cogitatio 2 1392 696
Copernicus GmbH 2 4070 2035
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 2 1100 550
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4415 2207
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2742 2742
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 748 748
BMJ 1 1484 1484
Edinburgh University Global Health Society 1 1198 1198
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2459 2459
EMW Publishing 1 319 319
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1904 1904
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1960 1960
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1907 1907
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1100 1100
PeerJ 1 1082 1082
Pensoft Publishers 1 109 109
S. Karger AG 1 4083 4083
SAGE Publications 1 775 775
Schweizerbart 1 1092 1092
The Royal Society 1 1285 1285

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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