University of Rhode Island reports 2018 and 2019 APC expenditures


The University of Rhode Island (URI) has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides cost data on APCs paid between June 2018 and October 2019.

The URI University Libraries operate the University’s Open Access Fund, which underwrites publication fees for articles published in eligible open access journals.

Contact Person is Andrée Rathemacher.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 16 196€ and the average fee is 1 246€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 5 5638 1128
MDPI AG 3 3456 1152
Inter-Research Science Center 1 1600 1600
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1402 1402
Springer Nature 1 1583 1583
Swansea University 1 1145 1145
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1371 1371

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the URI 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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