JGU Mainz reports its 2021 APC expenditures


The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides additional data for the 2021 period.

Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Karin Eckert.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 73 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 118 990€ and the average fee is 1 630€.

The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers since its last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 35 57943 1656
Frontiers Media SA 22 38108 1732
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 6697 1674
Copernicus GmbH 3 4295 1432
Elsevier BV 2 2196 1098
SAGE Publications 2 2566 1283
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1519 1519
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1964 1964
Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO Press) 1 813 813
The Royal Society 1 1285 1285
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1604 1604

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz 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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