University of Greifswald reports its 2019 APC expenditures


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

Greifswald 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 Stefanie Bollin.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 49 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 64 353€ and the average fee is 1 313€.

The following table and plots show the payments Greifswald University Library has made to publishers in 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 14 7392 528
Springer Nature 14 22813 1629
Frontiers Media SA 13 24063 1851
MDPI AG 9 10810 1201
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 10169 1695
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3534 1767
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 390 390
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1988 1988
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1222 1222
Informa UK Limited 1 1999 1999
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 323 323
SAGE Publications 1 1529 1529

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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