The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Karin Eckert.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 92 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 145 136€ and the average fee is 1 578€.
The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers since its last report.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 30 | 46623 | 1554 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 21 | 34941 | 1664 |
| Springer Nature | 11 | 19181 | 1744 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 10489 | 1498 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 8415 | 1403 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 8343 | 1669 |
| Cogitatio | 4 | 4086 | 1022 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 2972 | 1486 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1977 | 1977 |
| BiomedGrid LLC | 1 | 1129 | 1129 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1626 | 1626 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1866 | 1866 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1585 | 1585 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
