The University of Freiburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
Freiburg 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 2019.
Contact person is Nadine Keßler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 268 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 442,616€ and the average fee is 1,652€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 70 | 101784 | 1454 |
| Springer Nature | 70 | 130674 | 1867 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 41 | 75009 | 1829 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 18852 | 1714 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 10 | 16863 | 1686 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 16075 | 1607 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 9584 | 1597 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 8822 | 1470 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 10042 | 1674 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 10002 | 2000 |
| BMJ | 3 | 4658 | 1553 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5460 | 1820 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5941 | 1980 |
| European Cells and Materials | 2 | 1611 | 806 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3053 | 1527 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 2459 | 1229 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 2969 | 1485 |
| Wildlife Biology | 2 | 1624 | 812 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1435 | 1435 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1524 | 1524 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 1679 | 1679 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1976 | 1976 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 909 | 909 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1119 | 1119 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2026 | 2026 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1802 | 1802 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 285 | 285 |
| Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO Press) | 1 | 883 | 883 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 314 | 314 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1253 | 1253 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1408 | 1408 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 522 | 522 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
