The Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 to 2019 period.
Tübingen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 547 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 863 665€ and the average fee is 1 579€.
The following table shows the payments Tübingen University Library has made to publishers in 2018 and 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 148 | 248473 | 1679 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 139 | 260132 | 1871 |
| MDPI AG | 88 | 106733 | 1213 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 58 | 81303 | 1402 |
| Elsevier BV | 24 | 31039 | 1293 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 17518 | 1593 |
| S. Karger AG | 9 | 13296 | 1477 |
| ARVO | 7 | 12695 | 1814 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 10277 | 1713 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 9368 | 1874 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6921 | 1730 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 7119 | 1780 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 4527 | 1132 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 6093 | 1523 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 5860 | 1953 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 4676 | 1558 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 3332 | 1111 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3062 | 1531 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 4028 | 2014 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2320 | 1160 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 2856 | 1428 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2999 | 1499 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 513 | 513 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1964 | 1964 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 618 | 618 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1096 | 1096 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1627 | 1627 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1317 | 1317 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 714 | 714 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 621 | 621 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1010 | 1010 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1204 | 1204 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1818 | 1818 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 711 | 711 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1045 | 1045 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 357 | 357 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Tübingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
