The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 and 2020 periods.
The JLU University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which was supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 90 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 152 512€ and the average fee is 1 695€.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 28 | 47300 | 1689 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 14 | 24403 | 1743 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 18709 | 1871 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 12888 | 1841 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 10648 | 1521 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 8792 | 1758 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 2009 | 670 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 3 | 5874 | 1958 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 5791 | 1930 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 2315 | 1157 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1085 | 543 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4163 | 4163 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 797 | 797 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 2213 | 2213 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1558 | 1558 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2142 | 2142 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 1826 | 1826 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
