The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data mainly for the 2018 period plus additional articles for 2016 and 2017.
The JLU 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.
Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 162 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 277 191€ and the average fee is 1 711€.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 34 | 63529 | 1869 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 32 | 74591 | 2331 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 25 | 38204 | 1528 |
| MDPI AG | 17 | 22362 | 1315 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 9 | 15430 | 1714 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 6 | 10621 | 1770 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 9445 | 1889 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 3422 | 684 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 9432 | 1886 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 2179 | 545 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 4177 | 2088 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 2 | 3122 | 1561 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2956 | 1478 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1278 | 639 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1173 | 1173 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1232 | 1232 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1167 | 1167 |
| Crop Science Society of America | 1 | 1363 | 1363 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1454 | 1454 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2871 | 2871 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 1 | 662 | 662 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1856 | 1856 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 896 | 896 |
| Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones | 1 | 200 | 200 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
