New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 40 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 61 256€ and the average fee is 1 531€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 16 | 25098 | 1569 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 7 | 13672 | 1953 |
| Cogitatio | 5 | 1200 | 240 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 6052 | 2017 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2069 | 1034 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1155 | 1155 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1781 | 1781 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2498 | 2498 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1960 | 1960 |
| Springer Nature | 1 | 1480 | 1480 |
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University | 1 | 1531 | 1531 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 2761 | 2761 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Bielefeld now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
