University of Freiburg reports its 2019 APC expenditures


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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