JGU Mainz reports its 2020 Springer APC expenditures


The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides additional data for the 2020 period.

Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Karin Eckert.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 29 articles, total expenditure amounts to 49 246€ and the average fee is 1 698€. The data set consists of Gold OA articles published under the DEAL agreement with Springer, the 20% DEAL discount is thus included.

Overview

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