University of Passau joins OpenAPC


We welcome the University of Passau as new contributing institution!

Passau University Library operates the University’s Open Access Publishing Funds and has kindly provided an initial data set on APC expenditures. Please note that this fund is not supported by the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme, contrary to most German universities participating in OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Lisa Spindler.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 6 articles published from 2016 to 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 6,816€ and the average fee is 1,136€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 2 2945 1472
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 1179 1179
Frontiers Media SA 1 233 233
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1394 1394
Springer Nature 1 1065 1065

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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