University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld joins OpenAPC


We welcome the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld as new contributing institution!

The University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person for the data set is Katharina Schulz.

About the data set

The initial data set contributed by the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld contains information on publication fees covered by the institutional Open Access Publishing Fund from 2017 to 2020.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 46 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 50 534€ and the average fee is 1 099€.

The following table and plots provide an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 23 28698 1248
AIMS 8 2146 268
SAGE Publications 7 9055 1294
AIP Publishing 2 2866 1433
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3694 1847
Copernicus GmbH 1 1549 1549
Index Copernicus 1 357 357
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1751 1751
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 417 417

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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