The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.
The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Roland Wagner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 248 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 429 079€ and the average fee is 1 730€.
The following table shows the payments Frankfurt University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 88 | 154545 | 1756 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 71 | 133361 | 1878 |
| Springer Nature | 24 | 42533 | 1772 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 24985 | 1666 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 22848 | 2077 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 10171 | 1695 |
| BMJ | 3 | 4509 | 1503 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 3627 | 1209 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 4977 | 1659 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 3 | 927 | 309 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 3722 | 1861 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 1710 | 855 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1756 | 878 |
| University of Uludag | 2 | 3570 | 1785 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 835 | 835 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 1472 | 1472 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1031 | 1031 |
| International Global Health Society | 1 | 1779 | 1779 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2201 | 2201 |
| Korean Neurosurgical Society | 1 | 319 | 319 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1858 | 1858 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1478 | 1478 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1949 | 1949 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 267 | 267 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 962 | 962 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Frankfurt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
