The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.
The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which has been receiving support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Markus Putnings.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 222 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 337 001€ and the average fee is 1 518€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 85 | 100483 | 1182 |
| Springer Nature | 47 | 79074 | 1682 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 33 | 61620 | 1867 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 22075 | 1698 |
| Informa UK Limited | 7 | 13323 | 1903 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 7310 | 1462 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 8937 | 1787 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 11460 | 2865 |
| BMJ | 3 | 4543 | 1514 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 1611 | 805 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 3932 | 1966 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3903 | 1952 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2376 | 1188 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 3247 | 1624 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1664 | 1664 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1992 | 1992 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 1 | 476 | 476 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1871 | 1871 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 1 | 1066 | 1066 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 945 | 945 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
