University of Marburg reports APC expenditures for 2020


The University of Marburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

Marburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Margit L. Hartung.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 98 articles, total expenditure amounts to 163,816€ and the average fee is 1,672€.

The following table shows the payments Marburg University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 30 48218 1607
Springer Nature 21 38717 1844
Frontiers Media SA 12 22675 1890
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 7 13366 1909
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 8297 1659
Wiley-Blackwell 4 5436 1359
Elsevier BV 3 3705 1235
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 5285 1762
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 1700 850
Informa UK Limited 2 3882 1941
AIP Publishing 1 1602 1602
BMJ 1 1527 1527
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1913 1913
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1706 1706
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1952 1952
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 550 550
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 1829 1829
SAGE Publications 1 445 445
University of Bern 1 1009 1009

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Marburg 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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