University of Salzburg joins OpenAPC


We welcome the University of Salzburg as new contributing institution!

The University Library of Salzburg manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund and has kindly provided an initial data set on APC expenditures.

Contact Person is Linda Ohrtmann.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 68 articles published from 2014 to 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 97 314€ and the average fee is 1 431€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 26 42464 1633
Springer Nature 11 18635 1694
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 13845 1538
MDPI AG 7 7387 1055
SAGE Publications 5 3579 716
Elsevier BV 2 3741 1870
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2 1250 625
Cogitatio 1 1080 1080
Copernicus GmbH 1 672 672
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 180 180
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1333 1333
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 1178 1178
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1970 1970

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

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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