Osnabrück University reports its 2021 APC expenditures


Osnabrück University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period and some additions for the 2020 period.

Osnabrück University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Sabine Boccalini.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 45 articles in 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 77 582€ and the average fee is 1 724€.

The following table shows the payments Osnabrück University Library has made to publishers in 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 16 27961 1748
Frontiers Media SA 12 22881 1907
Springer Nature 8 14446 1806
Wiley-Blackwell 3 4421 1474
BMJ 1 1929 1929
Elsevier BV 1 524 524
Informa UK Limited 1 1577 1577
IUCr 1 397 397
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1726 1726
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1721 1721

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Osnabrück University 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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