University of Rostock reports its 2019 APC expenditures


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

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

In addition, Rostock University Library has also reported cost data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.

Contact Person is Steffen Malo.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 99 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 134 823€ and the average fee is 1 362€.

The following table shows the payments Rostock University Library has made to publishers in 2019. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

Publishers

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 79 85780 1086
Springer Nature 42 69178 1647
Frontiers Media SA 35 62943 1798
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 21 33084 1575
Elsevier BV 10 10145 1015
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 8 11240 1405
Copernicus GmbH 5 4929 986
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6141 1535
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 3 479 160
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 3948 1316
RonPub 3 635 212
Bioflux 2 371 186
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3527 1764
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3360 1680
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1711 855
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 2 1500 750
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 549 549
AME Publishing Company 1 1457 1457
BMJ 1 1875 1875
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1299 1299
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1994 1994
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1785 1785
David Publishing Company 1 299 299
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1770 1770
Informa UK Limited 1 1053 1053
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1519 1519
S. Karger AG 1 624 624
Sciaccess Publishers LLC 1 1216 1216
Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd. 1 1332 1332
The Company of Biologists 1 1428 1428
The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology 1 620 620
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

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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