New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 156 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 309 957€ and the average fee is 1 987€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 50 | 89907 | 1798 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 38 | 82326 | 2166 |
| Springer Nature | 34 | 75637 | 2225 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 18467 | 2052 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 6 | 10553 | 1759 |
| Cogitatio | 4 | 960 | 240 |
| Syncsci Publishing Pte., Ltd. | 3 | 1807 | 602 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2 | 7865 | 3932 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1823 | 1823 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3155 | 3155 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 2249 | 2249 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4284 | 4284 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1490 | 1490 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2313 | 2313 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2079 | 2079 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2011 | 2011 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1032 | 1032 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Bielefeld now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
