The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2019 period.
The University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme since 2014.
Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 113 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 187 325€ and the average fee is 1 658€.
The following table shows the payments the RUB has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 32 | 61605 | 1925 |
| MDPI AG | 29 | 42760 | 1474 |
| Springer Nature | 14 | 24742 | 1767 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 21951 | 1689 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 11586 | 1655 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 1223 | 408 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3666 | 1833 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2968 | 1484 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1438 | 1438 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1570 | 1570 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1865 | 1865 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1992 | 1992 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1902 | 1902 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1700 | 1700 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 781 | 781 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1352 | 1352 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
