New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
The harvested data includes 198 articles, amounting to 292 988€ and an average fee of 1 480€.
Note that the net intake is lower, as 89 articles were already present in the OpenAPC data set.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 72 | 105002 | 1458 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 43 | 78689 | 1830 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 29 | 46222 | 1594 |
| MDPI AG | 17 | 14481 | 852 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 11435 | 1634 |
| BMJ | 3 | 4773 | 1591 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 3 | 5979 | 1993 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 3 | 3059 | 1020 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 1404 | 702 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 3704 | 1852 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1373 | 1373 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 790 | 790 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1935 | 1935 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1881 | 1881 |
| Crimson Publishers | 1 | 424 | 424 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 2242 | 2242 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1509 | 1509 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 738 | 738 |
| Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1 | 1026 | 1026 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1918 | 1918 |
| Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1 | 1011 | 1011 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1050 | 1050 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 279 | 279 |
| Scientific & Academic Publishing | 1 | 140 | 140 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 401 | 401 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 238 | 238 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Bielefeld University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
