The University of Bremen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
The State and University Library Bremen is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Benjamin Ahlborn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 141 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 213 657€ and the average fee is 1 515€.
The following table shows the payments the State and University Library Bremen has made to publishers since its last contribution.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 44 | 53592 | 1218 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 32 | 64387 | 2012 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 22 | 41828 | 1901 |
| Springer Nature | 13 | 19932 | 1533 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 4077 | 680 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 1334 | 445 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 5288 | 1763 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1440 | 720 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3433 | 1717 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2975 | 1488 |
| Norwegian Polar Institute | 2 | 2528 | 1264 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2211 | 1105 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 1719 | 859 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3539 | 3539 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1251 | 1251 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1644 | 1644 |
| International Council of Associations for Science Education | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1429 | 1429 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bremen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
