The University of Münster has provided its APC expenditures for the 2018 period.
Münster 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 since 2014.
Contact person is Viola Voß.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 85 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 127 851€ and the average fee is 1 504€.
The following table shows the payments Münster University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 26 | 42366 | 1629 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 16 | 24099 | 1506 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 12 | 20568 | 1714 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 8001 | 1334 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 3155 | 1052 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 5708 | 1903 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1904 | 952 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3729 | 1865 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2708 | 1354 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1474 | 737 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1874 | 937 |
| Berlin Regener Publishing House | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1836 | 1836 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1928 | 1928 |
| EconJournals | 1 | 540 | 540 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 1531 | 1531 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1683 | 1683 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 993 | 993 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1856 | 1856 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Münster now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
