Leipzig University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Leipzig 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 person is Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 269 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 460 752€ and the average fee is 1 713€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 81 | 136165 | 1681 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 46 | 85283 | 1854 |
| Springer Nature | 37 | 64187 | 1735 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 29 | 54371 | 1875 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 23 | 38506 | 1674 |
| Elsevier BV | 13 | 17338 | 1334 |
| AIP Publishing | 5 | 12469 | 2494 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 5560 | 1390 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 9130 | 2282 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 2105 | 526 |
| AME Publishing Company | 3 | 4300 | 1433 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 2285 | 762 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 5927 | 1976 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 5097 | 2549 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 1580 | 1580 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1458 | 1458 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 2201 | 2201 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1385 | 1385 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2551 | 2551 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1856 | 1856 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1598 | 1598 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1404 | 1404 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1908 | 1908 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 709 | 709 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1025 | 1025 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 357 | 357 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
