The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.
Potsdam 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 is Linda Thomas.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 111 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 167 636€ and the average fee is 1 510€.
The following table shows the payments Potsdam University Library has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 28 | 50608 | 1807 |
| Springer Nature | 19 | 30740 | 1618 |
| MDPI AG | 18 | 21495 | 1194 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 15412 | 1712 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 9915 | 1416 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 8767 | 1461 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 8886 | 1481 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 2963 | 988 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2080 | 1040 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 892 | 446 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1590 | 1590 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1251 | 1251 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1580 | 1580 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1797 | 1797 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1953 | 1953 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 210 | 210 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Potsdam now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
