The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 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 79 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 121 125€ and the average fee is 1 533€.
The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 21 | 35961 | 1712 |
| Springer Nature | 18 | 28968 | 1609 |
| MDPI AG | 9 | 12089 | 1343 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 11853 | 1482 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6551 | 1638 |
| Kernel Press UG (haftungsbeschrankt) | 4 | 1600 | 400 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 4585 | 1528 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3236 | 1618 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3895 | 1947 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1409 | 1409 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1404 | 1404 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1741 | 1741 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 1782 | 1782 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1210 | 1210 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1532 | 1532 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1821 | 1821 |
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)
