MLU Halle-Wittenberg reports its 2022 APC expenditures


The Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period.

The MLU University and State Library (ULB) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2021.

Contact Person is Roberto Cozatl.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 151 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 341 598€ and the average fee is 2 262€. The contribution also contained BPC data for one OA monograph which is not listed here.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 39 108417 2780
MDPI AG 39 76380 1958
Springer Nature 39 91488 2346
Wiley-Blackwell 12 24959 2080
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 10813 2163
Elsevier BV 4 9279 2320
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 4 2010 502
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1303 1303
American Society for Microbiology 1 4341 4341
BMJ 1 3099 3099
Czech Botanical Society 1 833 833
IOP Publishing 1 2755 2755
Medical Journals Sweden AB 1 1964 1964
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1419 1419
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1681 1681
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 857 857

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MLU now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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