The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which has been receiving support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Markus Putnings.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 334 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 609 001€ and the average fee is 1 823€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 128 | 221732 | 1732 |
| Springer Nature | 98 | 205461 | 2097 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 34 | 58084 | 1708 |
| Elsevier BV | 10 | 15232 | 1523 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 16596 | 1844 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 13517 | 1690 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 8959 | 1493 |
| IEEE | 5 | 8574 | 1715 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 7045 | 1761 |
| BMJ | 3 | 5210 | 1737 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 3727 | 1242 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 2519 | 1260 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 4011 | 2005 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 2169 | 1085 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2981 | 1490 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 1619 | 809 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2002 | 2002 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 3272 | 3272 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1498 | 1498 |
| Biophysical Society | 1 | 1006 | 1006 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1792 | 1792 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4284 | 4284 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| GeoScienceWorld | 1 | 2016 | 2016 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2380 | 2380 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2007 | 2007 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 1981 | 1981 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2008 | 2008 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
