New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Saarland University.
The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) decided to make data on APC expenditures directly available in their institutional repository, where it can be harvested by OpenAPC on a regular basis via OAI-PMH.
The SULB is also in charge of the central publication fund at Saarland University, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Ulrich Herb.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 283 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 726,824€ and the average fee is 2,568€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 100 | 258904 | 2589 |
| MDPI AG | 72 | 170285 | 2365 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 35 | 100557 | 2873 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 35 | 90044 | 2573 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 33045 | 3672 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 17572 | 2510 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 9972 | 1994 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 12679 | 3170 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 2712 | 1356 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 6149 | 3075 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3954 | 1977 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1541 | 1541 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2962 | 2962 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1104 | 1104 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3355 | 3355 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3573 | 3573 |
| German Medical Science | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1899 | 1899 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2215 | 2215 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2351 | 2351 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1149 | 1149 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Saarland University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
