Leipzig University has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs for the 2021 period as well as on BPCs for 2020 and 2021.
Leipzig 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 person is Dr. Astrid Vieler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 473 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 880 281€ and the average fee is 1 861€.
The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2021. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 146 | 271435 | 1859 |
| Springer Nature | 106 | 200392 | 1890 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 88 | 171086 | 1944 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 33 | 50699 | 1536 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 23 | 41209 | 1792 |
| Elsevier BV | 15 | 31492 | 2099 |
| Informa UK Limited | 9 | 21245 | 2361 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 17354 | 2892 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 5 | 10239 | 2048 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 4 | 5518 | 1380 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 8361 | 2787 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4088 | 1363 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 6872 | 2291 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 4734 | 1578 |
| AME Publishing Company | 2 | 2776 | 1388 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 3804 | 1902 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 2 | 4765 | 2382 |
| S. Karger AG | 2 | 2521 | 1261 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 278 | 139 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 357 | 357 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4027 | 4027 |
| Anticancer Research USA Inc. | 1 | 846 | 846 |
| BAKIS Productions | 1 | 619 | 619 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2086 | 2086 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1355 | 1355 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1007 | 1007 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 580 | 580 |
| Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) | 1 | 1086 | 1086 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2168 | 2168 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1032 | 1032 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 744 | 744 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones | 1 | 200 | 200 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
