The University of Bayreuth has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Bayreuth 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 Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 83 articles, total expenditure amounts to 123,936€ and the average fee is 1,493€.
The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 31 | 43795 | 1413 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 16734 | 1859 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 14996 | 1874 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 11573 | 1653 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 5651 | 1130 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 6699 | 1675 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 5152 | 1717 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2846 | 1423 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3471 | 1736 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 745 | 745 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1870 | 1870 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1133 | 1133 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1044 | 1044 |
| DAAAM International | 1 | 1178 | 1178 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1780 | 1780 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 988 | 988 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 964 | 964 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1204 | 1204 |
| Society for Research and Knowledge Management | 1 | 447 | 447 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
