University of Bremen reports its 2018 and 2019 APC expenditures


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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