Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains more APC data for the 2019 period.
The University Library Heidelberg 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 Dr. Jochen Apel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 265 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 420 750€ and the average fee is 1 588€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 73 | 125049 | 1713 |
| MDPI AG | 62 | 79521 | 1283 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 59 | 112628 | 1909 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 22 | 36881 | 1676 |
| BMJ | 10 | 16033 | 1603 |
| Elsevier BV | 8 | 6738 | 842 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 12284 | 1755 |
| AME Publishing Company | 3 | 4457 | 1486 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 4664 | 1555 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 2142 | 1071 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3877 | 1939 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 2 | 1840 | 920 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2500 | 1250 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 3174 | 1587 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1440 | 720 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1959 | 1959 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1906 | 1906 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1091 | 1091 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2003 | 2003 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 327 | 327 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 238 | 238 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
