University of Würzburg reports its 2018 APC expenditures


The University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

Würzburg 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 Kristina Hanig.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 127 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 202 719€ and the average fee is 1 596€.

The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 54 90334 1673
Frontiers Media SA 18 32248 1792
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 21745 1673
MDPI AG 9 11104 1234
Elsevier BV 5 3777 755
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 6604 1651
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 3 6371 2124
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 4929 1643
PeerJ 3 2823 941
American Society for Microbiology 2 4609 2305
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3668 1834
Wiley-Blackwell 2 1083 541
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1666 1666
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 749 749
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1804 1804
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 2142 2142
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2063 2063
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2290 2290
Science and Education Publishing Co., Ltd. 1 103 103
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 822 822
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1785 1785

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Würzburg now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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