The Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period and some remaining articles for 2019.
The MLU University and State Library (ULB) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Roberto Cozatl.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 144 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 229 852€ and the average fee is 1 596€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 52 | 72137 | 1387 |
| Springer Nature | 34 | 65536 | 1928 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 34748 | 1829 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 12766 | 1418 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 11727 | 1675 |
| BMJ | 4 | 7138 | 1784 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 7258 | 1814 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 6043 | 1511 |
| BioScientifica | 2 | 3780 | 1890 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 652 | 326 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1618 | 1618 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 809 | 809 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 454 | 454 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1051 | 1051 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1294 | 1294 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1556 | 1556 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
