The University of Bremen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period and some remaining articles for 2020.
The State and University Library Bremen is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Benjamin Ahlborn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 309 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 561 298€ and the average fee is 1 816€.
The following table shows the payments the State and University Library Bremen has made to publishers since its last contribution.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Informa UK Limited | 68 | 58614 | 862 |
| MDPI AG | 67 | 121238 | 1810 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 41 | 96418 | 2352 |
| Elsevier BV | 37 | 96539 | 2609 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 26 | 53260 | 2048 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 14635 | 1626 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 6 | 17253 | 2876 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 7018 | 1404 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 8683 | 1737 |
| Cogitatio | 4 | 3641 | 910 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 14426 | 3607 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 4926 | 1232 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 7366 | 1842 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 5696 | 1899 |
| Brill | 2 | 4879 | 2440 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 2995 | 1498 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 2 | 5950 | 2975 |
| Springer Nature | 2 | 5569 | 2785 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 626 | 313 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4492 | 4492 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 1 | 1675 | 1675 |
| Brill Deutschland GmbH | 1 | 2558 | 2558 |
| California Digital Library (CDL) | 1 | 153 | 153 |
| Desalination Publications | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Emerald | 1 | 3225 | 3225 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1001 | 1001 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 1 | 2956 | 2956 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2584 | 2584 |
| Nomos Verlag | 1 | 2939 | 2939 |
| Norwegian Polar Institute | 1 | 1692 | 1692 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| University of Wisconsin Press | 1 | 1888 | 1888 |
| Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bremen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
