The University of Freiburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
Freiburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Nadine Keßler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 456 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 941,561€ and the average fee is 2,065€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 157 | 337672 | 2151 |
| MDPI AG | 111 | 200740 | 1808 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 67 | 161083 | 2404 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 24 | 48254 | 2011 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 16 | 27935 | 1746 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 15 | 25556 | 1704 |
| Elsevier BV | 12 | 31297 | 2608 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 24989 | 2777 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 6726 | 1345 |
| BMJ | 3 | 6206 | 2069 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 6949 | 2316 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 5303 | 1768 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 2 | 3129 | 1565 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 4911 | 2456 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4251 | 2125 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 5064 | 2532 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 2 | 2408 | 1204 |
| Wildlife Biology | 2 | 1666 | 833 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3641 | 3641 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2946 | 2946 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Brill | 1 | 1583 | 1583 |
| Cureus, Inc. | 1 | 306 | 306 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4284 | 4284 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2099 | 2099 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1762 | 1762 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1856 | 1856 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 978 | 978 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2202 | 2202 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3020 | 3020 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 2558 | 2558 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2255 | 2255 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) | 1 | 2180 | 2180 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 1035 | 1035 |
| University of Zurich | 1 | 1100 | 1100 |
| VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK | 1 | 882 | 882 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 952 | 952 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
