University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures


The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides articles for the years 2020 and 2021.

The BIS (Library and Information System) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 89 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 143 768€ and the average fee is 1 615€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 25 43024 1721
MDPI AG 20 33990 1699
Springer Nature 20 34275 1714
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 6574 1644
SAGE Publications 4 5291 1323
Wiley-Blackwell 3 4424 1475
Informa UK Limited 2 3295 1648
IOP Publishing 2 2836 1418
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1403 701
AME Publishing Company 1 1372 1372
BMJ 1 1724 1724
Copernicus GmbH 1 1601 1601
EDP Sciences 1 378 378
MIT Press - Journals 1 1202 1202
Modestum Limited 1 416 416
Society for Neuroscience 1 1964 1964

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg 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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