Ulm University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 periods.
Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2016.
Contact person is Uli Hahn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 271 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 541 814€ and the average fee is 1 999€.
The following table shows the payments the kiz has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 123 | 243181 | 1977 |
| Springer Nature | 70 | 152962 | 2185 |
| MDPI AG | 31 | 57199 | 1845 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 15443 | 1716 |
| IEEE | 7 | 9056 | 1294 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 12743 | 2549 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 8626 | 2157 |
| European Cells and Materials | 3 | 2403 | 801 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4901 | 1634 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 6257 | 2086 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2795 | 1397 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 7616 | 3808 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3764 | 3764 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1252 | 1252 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1870 | 1870 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1823 | 1823 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 1711 | 1711 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2803 | 2803 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2252 | 2252 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 2115 | 2115 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1043 | 1043 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ulm now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
