Osnabrück University reports its 2020 APC expenditures


Osnabrück University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

Osnabrück University Library 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 Sabine Boccalini.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 43 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 72 424€ and the average fee is 1 684€.

The following table shows the payments Osnabrück University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 17 29116 1713
MDPI AG 10 17941 1794
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 8677 1735
Wiley-Blackwell 4 5081 1270
Springer Nature 2 3690 1845
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 2038 2038
Elsevier BV 1 1083 1083
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1985 1985
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1701 1701
PeerJ 1 1112 1112

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Osnabrück University 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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