The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.
Potsdam University Library 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 Linda Thomas.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 61 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 88 155€ and the average fee is 1 445€.
The following table shows the payments Potsdam University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 17 | 29627 | 1743 |
| MDPI AG | 12 | 12043 | 1004 |
| Springer Nature | 10 | 15218 | 1522 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 11126 | 1589 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6054 | 1513 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 1621 | 811 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2692 | 1346 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 3277 | 1639 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2008 | 2008 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1029 | 1029 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2007 | 2007 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Potsdam now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
