WWU Münster reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The University of Münster has provided its APC expenditures for the 2019 period.

Münster University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme from 2014 to 2019.

Contact person is Viola Voß.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 104 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 165 475€ and the average fee is 1 591€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 19 29655 1561
Springer Nature 19 30754 1619
Frontiers Media SA 17 31078 1828
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 16 26927 1683
Wiley-Blackwell 6 9803 1634
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 5623 1874
Cogitatio 2 2380 1190
Copernicus GmbH 2 2810 1405
Elsevier BV 2 1862 931
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3604 1802
Informa UK Limited 2 2487 1244
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3877 1939
Joule Inc. 2 2796 1398
University of California Press 2 2052 1026
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1130 1130
Anticancer Research USA Inc. 1 636 636
Geological Society of America 1 1880 1880
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1565 1565
IOP Publishing 1 1392 1392
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 400 400
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1998 1998
SAGE Publications 1 766 766

Overview

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