Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) updates its APC expenditures


The UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) has replaced its previous APC data with a new version.

The UFZ Library manages the institute’s expenditures for Open Access publishing.

Contact person is Ilka Rudolf.

About the dataset

The new data set contributed by the UFZ contains information on publication fees paid from 2012 to 2019.

Cost Data

The new data covers publication fees for 145 articles. It replaces 98 existing UFZ entries, leading to a net increase of 47 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 187 249€ and the average fee is 1 291€.

The following table and plots show the payments the UFZ Library has made to publishers from 2012 to 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 47 48380 1029
Copernicus GmbH 40 46049 1151
Frontiers Media SA 31 56315 1817
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 22 28649 1302
Wiley-Blackwell 5 7855 1571

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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