The Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
The 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 Kathrin Lucht-Roussel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 206 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 369,987€ and the average fee is 1,796€.
The following table shows the payments the RUB has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 65 | 121357 | 1867 |
| MDPI AG | 49 | 83305 | 1700 |
| Springer Nature | 46 | 98201 | 2135 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 13 | 23429 | 1802 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 15595 | 1733 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4734 | 1578 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3340 | 1670 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 1464 | 732 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 843 | 421 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1538 | 1538 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1246 | 1246 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| EconJournals | 1 | 595 | 595 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1972 | 1972 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 595 | 595 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1838 | 1838 |
| Medknow | 1 | 1740 | 1740 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 417 | 417 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 990 | 990 |
| VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK | 1 | 304 | 304 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the RUB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
