Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains additional APC data for the 2018 and 2019 periods.
The University Library Heidelberg 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 Dr. Jochen Apel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 147 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 230 749€ and the average fee is 1 570€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 48 | 79336 | 1653 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 36 | 65782 | 1827 |
| MDPI AG | 27 | 29279 | 1084 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 12766 | 1596 |
| BMJ | 5 | 9213 | 1843 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6700 | 1675 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 3 | 5705 | 1902 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 2169 | 1084 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3611 | 1805 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1505 | 753 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1191 | 1191 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1798 | 1798 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 1 | 1047 | 1047 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1985 | 1985 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1654 | 1654 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2021 | 2021 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1696 | 1696 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1210 | 1210 |
| ScopeMed International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System | 1 | 416 | 416 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
