University of Rostock joins OpenAPC


We welcome the University of Rostock as new contributing institution!

The Rostock University Library 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 Steffen Malo.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by Rostock University Library covers publication fees for 140 articles published in 2017 and 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 183 565€ and the average fee is 1 311€.

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

Publishers

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 39 42921 1101
Springer Nature 27 43166 1599
Frontiers Media SA 17 28924 1701
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 14 21672 1548
Elsevier BV 8 9210 1151
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 7 9523 1360
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 3948 1316
Ronpub 3 635 212
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5099 1700
Copernicus GmbH 2 1502 751
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 2 1500 750
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 549 549
Bioflux 1 161 161
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1299 1299
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1994 1994
David Publishing Company 1 299 299
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1770 1770
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 132 132
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1775 1775
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1609 1609
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 680 680
S. Karger AG 1 624 624
Sciaccess Publishers LLC 1 1216 1216
Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd. 1 1332 1332
The Company of Biologists 1 1428 1428
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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