The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Duisburg-Essen 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 2014.
Contact persons are Frank Lützenkirchen and Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 217 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 357 275€ and the average fee is 1 646€.
The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 68 | 111625 | 1642 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 53 | 100899 | 1904 |
| Springer Nature | 26 | 44450 | 1710 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 19189 | 1744 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 15853 | 1761 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 7067 | 1010 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 6 | 10484 | 1747 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 6920 | 1153 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 6860 | 1715 |
| BMJ | 3 | 4265 | 1422 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 2719 | 906 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3238 | 1619 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3981 | 1990 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 2 | 1471 | 736 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2200 | 1100 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 2 | 2818 | 1409 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1549 | 1549 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1269 | 1269 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1169 | 1169 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1418 | 1418 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1826 | 1826 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1223 | 1223 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 1825 | 1825 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 687 | 687 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Duisburg-Essen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
