The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2018 period.
The 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 Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 102 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 157 401€ and the average fee is 1 543€.
The following table shows the payments the RUB has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 29 | 51593 | 1779 |
| Springer Nature | 24 | 37672 | 1570 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 17 | 25923 | 1525 |
| MDPI AG | 12 | 17577 | 1465 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 2303 | 768 |
| EconJournals | 2 | 881 | 440 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1113 | 556 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 2974 | 1487 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1809 | 1809 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1825 | 1825 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1358 | 1358 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1576 | 1576 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1697 | 1697 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 948 | 948 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2001 | 2001 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 836 | 836 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
