The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
Potsdam 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 2020.
Contact person is Linda Thomas.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 134 articles, total expenditure amounts to 239 112€ and the average fee is 1 784€.
The following table shows the payments Potsdam University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 40 | 74735 | 1868 |
| MDPI AG | 32 | 60096 | 1878 |
| Springer Nature | 24 | 42193 | 1758 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 17983 | 1798 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 6 | 11174 | 1862 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 8599 | 1720 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 5660 | 1415 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 5798 | 1933 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 2959 | 1479 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 2975 | 1488 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1256 | 1256 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2089 | 2089 |
| Open Library of the Humanities | 1 | 455 | 455 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Potsdam now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
