The University of Bremen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the years 2018 and 2019.
The State and University Library Bremen 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 Benjamin Ahlborn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 244 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 394 687€ and the average fee is 1 618€.
The following table shows the payments the State and University Library Bremen has made to publishers since its last contribution.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 70 | 76031 | 1086 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 53 | 96320 | 1817 |
| Springer Nature | 47 | 93360 | 1986 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 31 | 71667 | 2312 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 15326 | 1393 |
| Cogitatio | 4 | 4165 | 1041 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 5025 | 1675 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 4187 | 1396 |
| International Council of Associations for Science Education | 3 | 171 | 57 |
| BMJ | 2 | 4522 | 2261 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3699 | 1849 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 2 | 1100 | 550 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 3599 | 1799 |
| Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited | 1 | 331 | 331 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3576 | 3576 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2378 | 2378 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1509 | 1509 |
| Look Academic Publishers | 1 | 428 | 428 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2058 | 2058 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 887 | 887 |
| Anticancer Research USA Inc. | 1 | 664 | 664 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1171 | 1171 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 322 | 322 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2192 | 2192 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bremen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
