The Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Tübingen 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 Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 361 articles, total expenditure amounts to 615 490€ and the average fee is 1 705€.
The following table shows the payments Tübingen University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 99 | 181355 | 1832 |
| MDPI AG | 81 | 131403 | 1622 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 76 | 141948 | 1868 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 27 | 38265 | 1417 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 13 | 23851 | 1835 |
| Elsevier BV | 12 | 17714 | 1476 |
| BMJ | 5 | 8404 | 1681 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 7633 | 1527 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 5788 | 1447 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 4 | 7293 | 1823 |
| ARVO | 3 | 5745 | 1915 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 4053 | 1351 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 5738 | 1913 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3469 | 1735 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 3745 | 1872 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2247 | 1123 |
| Schweizerbart | 2 | 2129 | 1064 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2589 | 1295 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1292 | 646 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1646 | 1646 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 970 | 970 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3665 | 3665 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1680 | 1680 |
| Indian Orthopaedic Research Group | 1 | 241 | 241 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1715 | 1715 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1804 | 1804 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1203 | 1203 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1941 | 1941 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1624 | 1624 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 1009 | 1009 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1606 | 1606 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Tübingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
