The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Potsdam University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2020.
Contact person is Linda Thomas.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 109 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 164 312€ and the average fee is 1 507€.
The following table shows the payments Potsdam University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 37 | 55624 | 1503 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 26 | 41300 | 1588 |
| Springer Nature | 12 | 21040 | 1753 |
| IOP Publishing | 7 | 9263 | 1323 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 11647 | 1664 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6679 | 1670 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4506 | 1502 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 3969 | 1323 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 2 | 833 | 416 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2068 | 1034 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 856 | 428 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1617 | 1617 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 1625 | 1625 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1284 | 1284 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Potsdam now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
