University of Bayreuth reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The University of Bayreuth has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.

Bayreuth 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.

Contact person is Clemens Engelhardt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 68 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 94 062€ and the average fee is 1 383€.

The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 31 33027 1065
Springer Nature 13 24216 1863
Copernicus GmbH 4 4408 1102
Frontiers Media SA 3 6449 2150
IOP Publishing 3 4355 1452
Elsevier BV 2 2047 1023
Informa UK Limited 2 2819 1409
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3580 1790
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3348 1674
Soil Science Society of America 2 4069 2035
Wiley-Blackwell 2 2622 1311
AIP Publishing 1 2331 2331
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 791 791

Overview

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