The University of Freiburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2019 period.
Freiburg University Library 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 Nadine Keßler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 196 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 324 524€ and the average fee is 1 656€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 76 | 131076 | 1725 |
| MDPI AG | 37 | 48795 | 1319 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 29 | 54786 | 1889 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 22849 | 1758 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 6 | 10323 | 1721 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 7245 | 1449 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 10212 | 2042 |
| BMJ | 4 | 7144 | 1786 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 6073 | 2024 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3627 | 1814 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2599 | 1299 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2019 | 2019 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2051 | 2051 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2054 | 2054 |
| Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, AS CR | 1 | 476 | 476 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2039 | 2039 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1697 | 1697 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1647 | 1647 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1245 | 1245 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 393 | 393 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2049 | 2049 |
| Soil Science Society of America | 1 | 745 | 745 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1714 | 1714 |
| Wildlife Biology | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
