WWU Münster reports 2017 to 2019 BPC expenditures


The University of Münster has provided BPC expenditures for the 2017 to 2019 period.

Münster University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which supports publishing of OA monographs since 2017.

Contact person is Viola Voß.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 11 books. Total expenditure amounts to 54 300€ and the average fee is 4 936€.

The following tables and plots provide an overview of the payments Münster University Library has made to book publishers from 2017 to 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Waxmann Verlag 7 29810 4258
Felix Meiner Verlag 1 6786 6786
Logos Verlag Berlin 1 1075 1075
Peter Lang D 1 7652 7652
Velbrück Wissenschaft 1 8978 8978

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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