The Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 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.
The University and State Library Düsseldorf (ULB Düsseldorf) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.
Contact person is Thorsten Lemanski.
Cost Data
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 216 articles, total expenditure amounts to 388 539€ and the average fee is 1 799€.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 79 | 148546 | 1880 |
| MDPI AG | 64 | 114710 | 1792 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 28 | 50575 | 1806 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 17602 | 1760 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 19170 | 2130 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 8 | 7140 | 892 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 8711 | 2178 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 6051 | 2017 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 4444 | 1481 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 2 | 1966 | 983 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2672 | 2672 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1368 | 1368 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 912 | 912 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1526 | 1526 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1862 | 1862 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HHU Düsseldorf now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
