The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides more data for the 2019 and 2020 periods and several cost updates for older articles.
The JLU University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which was supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 244 articles, total expenditure amounts to 437 017€ and the average fee is 1 791€. It also provided cost updates to 30 articles already reported earlier, these changes are not shown here.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 69 | 114290 | 1656 |
| Springer Nature | 55 | 98189 | 1785 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 50 | 91204 | 1824 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 17 | 31514 | 1854 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 10 | 19198 | 1920 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 16270 | 1808 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 2657 | 531 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 11816 | 2954 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 10993 | 2748 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 8178 | 2726 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3199 | 1600 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 4439 | 2219 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2299 | 1150 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1773 | 886 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4459 | 4459 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1214 | 1214 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3949 | 3949 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1674 | 1674 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 3625 | 3625 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1829 | 1829 |
| Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices | 1 | 721 | 721 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 934 | 934 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1309 | 1309 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
