The University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Würzburg 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 2019.
Contact person is Kristina Hanig.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 216 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 429 643€ and the average fee is 1 989€.
The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 58 | 129787 | 2238 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 52 | 117333 | 2256 |
| MDPI AG | 37 | 59597 | 1611 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 14 | 25319 | 1809 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 18159 | 1816 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 10941 | 1824 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 5 | 13559 | 2712 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 4 | 4015 | 1004 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 7471 | 2490 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 6191 | 2064 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 5207 | 1736 |
| ALTEX Edition | 2 | 4700 | 2350 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2142 | 1071 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 2 | 1291 | 645 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1175 | 588 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1360 | 1360 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2301 | 2301 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2302 | 2302 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3665 | 3665 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1721 | 1721 |
| International Journal of Medical Education | 1 | 967 | 967 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 3455 | 3455 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1161 | 1161 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 950 | 950 |
| Science and Education Publishing | 1 | 447 | 447 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1508 | 1508 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1253 | 1253 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Würzburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
