University of Rhode Island reports 2020 APC expenditures


The University of Rhode Island (URI) has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides cost data on APCs paid in 2020.

The URI University Libraries operate the University’s Open Access Fund, which underwrites publication fees for articles published in eligible open access journals.

Contact Person is Andrée Rathemacher.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 5 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 064€ and the average fee is 1 413€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 4 5490 1372
Springer Nature 1 1575 1575

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the URI 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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