Ulm University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 and 2020 periods.
Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2016.
Contact person is Uli Hahn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 248 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 441 701€ and the average fee is 1 781€.
The following table shows the payments the kiz has made to publishers in 2019 and 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 109 | 207846 | 1907 |
| MDPI AG | 51 | 74130 | 1454 |
| Springer Nature | 22 | 43835 | 1992 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 18649 | 1695 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 19343 | 1758 |
| Elsevier BV | 9 | 19633 | 2181 |
| IOP Publishing | 8 | 10954 | 1369 |
| IEEE | 5 | 8363 | 1673 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5579 | 1860 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1998 | 999 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3502 | 1751 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3390 | 1695 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2570 | 1285 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4109 | 4109 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2623 | 2623 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 2334 | 2334 |
| Japan Epidemiological Association | 1 | 1155 | 1155 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2952 | 2952 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1284 | 1284 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 2691 | 2691 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1726 | 1726 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1585 | 1585 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1150 | 1150 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 300 | 300 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ulm now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
