Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains more APC data for the 2020 period and some remaining records from 2019.
The University Library Heidelberg 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 Dr. Jochen Apel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 70 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 116 840€ and the average fee is 1 669€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 35428 | 1865 |
| MDPI AG | 16 | 25635 | 1602 |
| Springer Nature | 16 | 28386 | 1774 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 8783 | 1757 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 8030 | 2008 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1247 | 623 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1517 | 1517 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 1608 | 1608 |
| Anticancer Research USA Inc. | 1 | 754 | 754 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1439 | 1439 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 616 | 616 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 551 | 551 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2046 | 2046 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 800 | 800 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
