The University of Göttingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.
The Göttingen State and 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 until 2019.
Contact persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 347 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 537 509€ and the average fee is 1 549€.
The following table shows the payments the SUB Göttingen has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 98 | 108673 | 1109 |
| Springer Nature | 64 | 114903 | 1795 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 54 | 105858 | 1960 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 29 | 49855 | 1719 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 25 | 43791 | 1752 |
| Elsevier BV | 12 | 20607 | 1717 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 12923 | 1846 |
| ARVO | 5 | 9096 | 1819 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 6163 | 1233 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 5450 | 1362 |
| The Royal Society | 4 | 5141 | 1285 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 8441 | 2814 |
| BMJ | 3 | 6995 | 2332 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 3 | 1945 | 648 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1428 | 714 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3922 | 1961 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2993 | 1497 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1511 | 756 |
| Soil Science Society of America | 2 | 1474 | 737 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1414 | 1414 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2059 | 2059 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1493 | 1493 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1992 | 1992 |
| Indian Society for Education and Environment | 1 | 211 | 211 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 738 | 738 |
| International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1392 | 1392 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1707 | 1707 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1854 | 1854 |
| Nihon University School of Dentistry | 1 | 389 | 389 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1176 | 1176 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2081 | 2081 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1757 | 1757 |
| Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones | 1 | 238 | 238 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Wildlife Biology | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
