MLU Halle-Wittenberg reports its 2018 APC expenditures


The Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

The MLU University and State Library (ULB) 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 Roberto Cozatl.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 60 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 106 598€ and the average fee is 1 777€.

The following table shows the payments the ULB has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 15 31348 2090
MDPI AG 12 13476 1123
Frontiers Media SA 11 24679 2244
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 9400 1567
Wiley-Blackwell 5 9338 1868
American Society for Microbiology 2 3345 1672
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3566 1783
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 1805 902
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1533 1533
BMJ 1 1696 1696
Impact Journals, LLC 1 3436 3436
IOP Publishing 1 1392 1392
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1584 1584

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MLU 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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