The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2019 period.
The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg 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 Roland Wagner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 215 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 328 861€ and the average fee is 1 530€.
The following table shows the payments Frankfurt University Library has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 62 | 80735 | 1302 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 49 | 93227 | 1903 |
| Springer Nature | 25 | 42577 | 1703 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 19 | 32017 | 1685 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 12366 | 1767 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 10198 | 1700 |
| BMJ | 5 | 7300 | 1460 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 9850 | 1970 |
| Cogitatio | 4 | 3427 | 857 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 5778 | 1445 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5950 | 1983 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 3 | 1800 | 600 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 2254 | 751 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 399 | 200 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 3057 | 1528 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3674 | 1837 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2251 | 1125 |
| Academic Conferences and Publishing International - ACPIL | 1 | 282 | 282 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1796 | 1796 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 813 | 813 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| European Association of Geochemistry | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| European Cells and Materials | 1 | 1051 | 1051 |
| Indian Orthopaedic Research Group | 1 | 266 | 266 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 1027 | 1027 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1921 | 1921 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 303 | 303 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 461 | 461 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Frankfurt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
