The Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
The University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2020.
Contact person is Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 140 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 232,232€ and the average fee is 1,659€.
The following table shows the payments the RUB has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 37 | 61424 | 1660 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 31 | 60789 | 1961 |
| Springer Nature | 31 | 54272 | 1751 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 21228 | 1633 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 7452 | 1490 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 3935 | 984 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 5947 | 1982 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3556 | 1778 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 2047 | 1023 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2981 | 1490 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1652 | 1652 |
| EpiSmart Science Vector Ltd | 1 | 375 | 375 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1044 | 1044 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1578 | 1578 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 656 | 656 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 501 | 501 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK | 1 | 901 | 901 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
