University of Linz reports its 2023 APC expenditures


The Johannes Kepler University Linz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.

The JKU library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing.

Contact Person is Susanne Luger.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 61 articles, total expenditure amounts to 138,071€ and the average fee is 2,263€.

The following table shows the payments the JKU library has made to publishers in 2023 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 35 75726 2164
Springer Nature 7 19458 2780
Frontiers Media SA 5 13406 2681
Elsevier BV 2 4740 2370
Indonesian Mathematical Society 2 703 351
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 5489 2745
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2213 2213
EMBO 1 5760 5760
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 1989 1989
IMR Press 1 2085 2085
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 954 954
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1890 1890
SAGE Publications 1 755 755
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2904 2904

Overview

The following plots provide a detailed overview of all data contributed by the University of Linz up to now:

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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