University of Salzburg reports its 2018 to 2020 APC expenditures


The University of Salzburg has reported new APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 to 2020 period.

The University Library of Salzburg manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.

Contact Person is Linda Ohrtmann.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 42 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 80 750€ and the average fee is 1 923€.

The following table shows the payments the University of Salzburg has made to publishers from 2018 to 2020 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 8 19910 2489
Springer Nature 8 21722 2715
MDPI AG 6 7350 1225
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 4 2500 625
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 7249 2416
BMJ 2 4614 2307
Elsevier BV 2 3314 1657
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3077 1538
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3110 1555
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4135 4135
Cogitatio 1 1080 1080
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1422 1422
SAGE Publications 1 907 907
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 360 360

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Salzburg 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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