The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 and 2019 periods.
The JLU 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 Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 78 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 122 934€ and the average fee is 1 576€.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 28 | 44022 | 1572 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 17 | 33139 | 1949 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 7 | 13820 | 1974 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 7152 | 1192 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 8014 | 1603 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 1587 | 794 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3775 | 1887 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1696 | 1696 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1414 | 1414 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 589 | 589 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 536 | 536 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 447 | 447 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2281 | 2281 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 988 | 988 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 654 | 654 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
