University of Göttingen reports its 2020 APC expenditures


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

The Göttingen State and 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 persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 395 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 673 422€ and the average fee is 1 705€.

The following table shows the payments the SUB Göttingen has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 118 169746 1439
Springer Nature 84 175839 2093
Frontiers Media SA 57 116377 2042
Wiley-Blackwell 29 45562 1571
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 23 41039 1784
Elsevier BV 13 18721 1440
Copernicus GmbH 10 19600 1960
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 6 10351 1725
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 11470 1912
SAGE Publications 6 5555 926
Pensoft Publishers 4 2896 724
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 2503 834
Informa UK Limited 3 6385 2128
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 6268 2089
American Society for Microbiology 2 3538 1769
IOP Publishing 2 3068 1534
Nihon University School of Dentistry 2 408 204
PeerJ 2 2221 1110
The Company of Biologists 2 5657 2828
The Royal Society 2 2506 1253
Academic Journals 1 580 580
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1982 1982
BMJ 1 1501 1501
Carden Jennings Publishing Co. 1 1081 1081
EDP Sciences 1 928 928
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2161 2161
Eurasian Society of Educational Research 1 542 542
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 488 488
Finnish Society of Forest Science 1 928 928
Impact Journals, LLC 1 1668 1668
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2806 2806
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik 1 812 812
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 1787 1787
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 961 961
S. Karger AG 1 904 904
Society for Neuroscience 1 2880 2880
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 426 426
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 1276 1276

Overview

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