The University of Siegen has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.
Siegen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person for the data set is Lena Vinnemann.
Cost Data
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 21 articles, total expenditure amounts to 39 562€ and the average fee is 1 884€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 4 | 4730 | 1182 |
| MDPI AG | 4 | 6673 | 1668 |
| Springer Nature | 4 | 9897 | 2474 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 2882 | 1441 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 5300 | 2650 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3430 | 1715 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1455 | 1455 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1232 | 1232 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 3963 | 3963 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Siegen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
