GEOMAR reports additional 2018 and 2019 APC expenditures


The GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has provided more APC expenditures for the 2018 and 2019 period.

The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.

Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 29 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 66,511€ and the average fee is 2,293€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 20245 1840
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 4 10931 2733
Springer Nature 3 16220 5407
Copernicus GmbH 2 3060 1530
The Royal Society 2 4080 2040
MDPI AG 2 2494 1247
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4579 2290
American Meteorological Society 1 688 688
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1574 1574
Society of Economic Geologists 1 2640 2640

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the GEOMAR 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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