The University of Freiburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2017 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 158 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 246 363€ and the average fee is 1 559€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 79 | 129313 | 1637 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 23 | 36754 | 1598 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 32300 | 1700 |
| MDPI AG | 14 | 14567 | 1040 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 7657 | 1276 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6505 | 1626 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 5034 | 1678 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3000 | 1500 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3920 | 1960 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3622 | 1811 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1312 | 656 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1760 | 1760 |
| Wildlife Biology | 1 | 620 | 620 |
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)
