The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 and 2019 period.
Duisburg-Essen 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 2014.
Contact persons are Frank Lützenkirchen and Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 242 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 364 700€ and the average fee is 1 507€.
The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers in 2018 and 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 59 | 82179 | 1393 |
| Springer Nature | 47 | 79657 | 1695 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 39 | 72760 | 1866 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 19 | 30224 | 1591 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 8 | 10123 | 1265 |
| SAGE Publications | 8 | 7533 | 942 |
| Informa UK Limited | 7 | 11273 | 1610 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 11111 | 1587 |
| AIP Publishing | 5 | 8432 | 1686 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 5133 | 1027 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 4826 | 965 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 5588 | 1397 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5182 | 1727 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 3469 | 1156 |
| BioScientifica | 2 | 3928 | 1964 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3075 | 1538 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 2 | 1428 | 714 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 2 | 1100 | 550 |
| Virtus Interpress | 2 | 1470 | 735 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1448 | 1448 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1494 | 1494 |
| Indian Orthopaedic Research Group | 1 | 297 | 297 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 1612 | 1612 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2059 | 2059 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1415 | 1415 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1 | 714 | 714 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2034 | 2034 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1487 | 1487 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 941 | 941 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 497 | 497 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1461 | 1461 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Duisburg-Essen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
