Leipzig University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.
Leipzig 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 Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 151 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 223 071€ and the average fee is 1 477€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 60 | 97684 | 1628 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 32307 | 1700 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 18 | 26568 | 1476 |
| MDPI AG | 16 | 16349 | 1022 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 7704 | 1101 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 6 | 11315 | 1886 |
| S. Karger AG | 3 | 3542 | 1181 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3616 | 1808 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2631 | 1316 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 1024 | 512 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3615 | 1808 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3076 | 1538 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3244 | 1622 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1375 | 1375 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1251 | 1251 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 988 | 988 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1862 | 1862 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 517 | 517 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 963 | 963 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 475 | 475 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 943 | 943 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
