The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 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 291 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 492 773€ and the average fee is 1 693€.
The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 143 | 242817 | 1698 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 67 | 124946 | 1865 |
| Elsevier BV | 13 | 18197 | 1400 |
| SAGE Publications | 13 | 20836 | 1603 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 15569 | 1730 |
| BMJ | 4 | 7692 | 1923 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 4 | 7409 | 1852 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 3 | 3279 | 1093 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 3 | 5889 | 1963 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4546 | 1515 |
| Springer Nature | 3 | 5307 | 1769 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 2542 | 1271 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 3104 | 1552 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3615 | 1808 |
| Virtus Interpress | 2 | 1580 | 790 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 2294 | 1147 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1847 | 1847 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1242 | 1242 |
| American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | 1 | 1931 | 1931 |
| Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1308 | 1308 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 1 | 446 | 446 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1356 | 1356 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1940 | 1940 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2038 | 2038 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1718 | 1718 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 714 | 714 |
| Society of Nuclear Medicine | 1 | 1693 | 1693 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
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)
