University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures


The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides more articles for the 2021 period.

The BIS (Library and Information System) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Kim Braun.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 56 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 94 609€ and the average fee is 1 689€.

The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 15 28676 1912
MDPI AG 11 19164 1742
Springer Nature 11 20587 1872
Copernicus GmbH 3 5553 1851
EDP Sciences 3 2570 857
Wiley-Blackwell 3 4384 1461
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3573 1786
BioScientifica 1 1890 1890
BMJ 1 1896 1896
Elsevier BV 1 631 631
Fortune Journals 1 1071 1071
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 1 530 530
IOP Publishing 1 1490 1490
S. Karger AG 1 1999 1999
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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