The University of Bayreuth has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.
Bayreuth 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 Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 47 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 62 667€ and the average fee is 1 333€.
The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 18 | 21008 | 1167 |
| Springer Nature | 11 | 18772 | 1707 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 6195 | 1549 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 3 | 6382 | 2127 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 1535 | 767 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1488 | 744 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 230 | 230 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1671 | 1671 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1266 | 1266 |
| Society for Research and Knowledge Management | 1 | 262 | 262 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1432 | 1432 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
