WWU Münster reports its 2020 APC and BPC expenditures

The University of Münster has provided both APC and BPC expenditures for 2020 period.

Münster University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which also supports publishing of OA monographs since 2017.

Contact person is Viola Voß.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 102 articles and 7 books. Total expenditure for articles amounts to 164,085€ and the average APC is 1,609€, while the total expenditures for books is 53,617€ with an average BPC of 7,660€.

The following tables and plots provide an overview of the payments Münster University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

Articles

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG	31	54182	1748
Springer Nature	11	18427	1675
Wiley-Blackwell	10	16464	1646
Frontiers Media SA	9	16164	1796
Public Library of Science (PLoS)	6	10182	1697
Informa UK Limited	5	8582	1716
Elsevier BV	4	4313	1078
Copernicus GmbH	3	4298	1433
ARVO	2	3880	1940
Cogitatio	2	2115	1058
Ivyspring International Publisher	2	2377	1189
Oxford University Press (OUP)	2	3803	1902
University of California Press	2	1918	959
Acta Dermato-Venereologica	1	1666	1666
Akademiai Kiado Zrt.	1	1012	1012
AME Publishing Company	1	1376	1376
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd	1	1782	1782
Geological Society of America	1	1805	1805
Hindawi Publishing Corporation	1	560	560
IOP Publishing	1	1428	1428
JMIR Publications Inc.	1	1891	1891
PeerJ	1	1063	1063
SAGE Publications	1	1018	1018
sub\urban e.V.	1	1500	1500
The Royal Society	1	1285	1285
VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK	1	993	993