University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures


The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures, the lastest contribution provides more articles for the 2019 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 57 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 87 444€ and the average fee is 1 534€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 20 39534 1977
MDPI AG 9 10386 1154
Springer Nature 8 13209 1651
AIP Publishing 2 2529 1264
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3536 1768
BMJ 1 1809 1809
Copernicus GmbH 1 1889 1889
ESG 1 595 595
Hikari, Ltd. 1 232 232
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1705 1705
Informa UK Limited 1 1902 1902
IOP Publishing 1 1671 1671
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1670 1670
Omnia Publisher SL 1 232 232
PeerJ 1 969 969
Pensoft Publishers 1 750 750
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 956 956
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 995 995
SAGE Publications 1 997 997
The Royal Society 1 1285 1285
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg now looks as follows:

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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