The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.
The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg 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 Markus Putnings.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 212 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 328 661€ and the average fee is 1 550€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 66 | 107256 | 1625 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 44 | 79010 | 1796 |
| MDPI AG | 37 | 44768 | 1210 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 14 | 21395 | 1528 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 7 | 13280 | 1897 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 8114 | 1159 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 7 | 8418 | 1203 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 3 | 5925 | 1975 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 3247 | 1623 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3289 | 1645 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 3052 | 1526 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3530 | 1765 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3430 | 1715 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1303 | 652 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 3276 | 1638 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1512 | 1512 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1802 | 1802 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1976 | 1976 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1964 | 1964 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 1966 | 1966 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1987 | 1987 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1741 | 1741 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 714 | 714 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1743 | 1743 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 607 | 607 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
