The University of Göttingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The Göttingen State and University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 435 articles, total expenditure amounts to 809 638€ and the average fee is 1 861€.
The following table shows the payments the SUB Göttingen has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 168 | 291834 | 1737 |
| Springer Nature | 83 | 179087 | 2158 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 66 | 128431 | 1946 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 22 | 39079 | 1776 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 21 | 42738 | 2035 |
| Elsevier BV | 20 | 40401 | 2020 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 11892 | 1699 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 10716 | 2143 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 4966 | 1241 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 3093 | 1031 |
| BMJ | 3 | 6794 | 2265 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 3148 | 1049 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 6097 | 3048 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 3292 | 1646 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1714 | 857 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3688 | 1844 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 4574 | 2287 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1457 | 729 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1404 | 702 |
| Sercrisma International | 2 | 3808 | 1904 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1373 | 1373 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4284 | 4284 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1326 | 1326 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 888 | 888 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 1010 | 1010 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1490 | 1490 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2293 | 2293 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1646 | 1646 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1153 | 1153 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1871 | 1871 |
| Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones | 1 | 232 | 232 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1004 | 1004 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
