The University of Bayreuth has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
Bayreuth 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 2020.
Contact person is Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 137 articles, total expenditure amounts to 255,689€ and the average fee is 1,866€.
The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 58 | 104276 | 1798 |
| Springer Nature | 20 | 43533 | 2177 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 14 | 32053 | 2290 |
| Elsevier BV | 12 | 20557 | 1713 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 14319 | 1790 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 8628 | 1726 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 2529 | 1265 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2921 | 1461 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4957 | 2479 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1317 | 1317 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2072 | 2072 |
| California Digital Library (CDL) | 1 | 383 | 383 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1508 | 1508 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 889 | 889 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 2103 | 2103 |
| DAAAM International | 1 | 1178 | 1178 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1827 | 1827 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2973 | 2973 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 3808 | 3808 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1043 | 1043 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1714 | 1714 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
