JGU Mainz reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution completes the data for the 2019 period.

Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Karin Eckert.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 48 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 74 839€ and the average fee is 1 559€.

The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers since its last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 10 16912 1691
Frontiers Media SA 7 13937 1991
Springer Nature 7 11794 1685
Wiley-Blackwell 5 5957 1191
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 5063 1688
Copernicus GmbH 2 1156 578
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 2541 1271
SAGE Publications 2 4377 2188
AIP Publishing 1 1603 1603
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 802 802
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 2382 2382
Elsevier BV 1 619 619
Informa UK Limited 1 1380 1380
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2053 2053
S. Karger AG 1 903 903
Society for Neuroscience 1 1715 1715
The Royal Society 1 643 643
University of California Press 1 1003 1003

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz 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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