The University of Siegen has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.
Siegen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person for the data set is Lena Vinnemann.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 31 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 70,515€ and the average fee is 2,275€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 12 | 33754 | 2813 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 5 | 12992 | 2598 |
| MDPI AG | 5 | 8684 | 1737 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 2379 | 1190 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 2688 | 1344 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1232 | 1232 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 710 | 710 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2030 | 2030 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 4141 | 4141 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Siegen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
