The University of Freiburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2018 period.
Freiburg 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 Nadine Keßler.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 168 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 262 469€ and the average fee is 1 562€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 61 | 101392 | 1662 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 31 | 58518 | 1888 |
| MDPI AG | 28 | 32155 | 1148 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 20 | 32886 | 1644 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 8247 | 1649 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6483 | 1621 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 1592 | 531 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3643 | 1821 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2810 | 1405 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3007 | 1504 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2034 | 1017 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 413 | 413 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1902 | 1902 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1674 | 1674 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2013 | 2013 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 883 | 883 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 706 | 706 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1714 | 1714 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
