Leipzig University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.
Leipzig 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 person is Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 218 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 342 628€ and the average fee is 1 572€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 64 | 109898 | 1717 |
| MDPI AG | 39 | 46358 | 1189 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 32 | 62210 | 1944 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 27 | 45712 | 1693 |
| Elsevier BV | 8 | 8932 | 1117 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 6 | 11226 | 1871 |
| BMJ | 4 | 6301 | 1575 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 7764 | 1941 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 7249 | 1812 |
| S. Karger AG | 4 | 6114 | 1529 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 4873 | 1218 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 3733 | 1244 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 1305 | 435 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3424 | 1712 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 1604 | 802 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2081 | 1041 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3343 | 1671 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1999 | 999 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1512 | 1512 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 1923 | 1923 |
| Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1059 | 1059 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
