University of Siegen joins OpenAPC


We welcome the University of Siegen as new contributing institution!

Siegen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person for the data set is Lena Vinnemann.

About the data set

The initial data set contributed by the University of Siegen contains information on publication fees covered by the institutional Open Access Publishing Fund from 2017 to 2019.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 18 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 25 686€ and the average fee is 1 427€.

The following table and plots provide an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 4 5868 1467
Springer Nature 2 4408 2204
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
Copernicus GmbH 1 186 186
Elsevier BV 1 512 512
Frontiers Media SA 1 2510 2510
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1924 1924
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1862 1862
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1422 1422
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1244 1244
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1571 1571
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1045 1045
SAGE Publications 1 278 278
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1785 1785

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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