University of Erfurt updates its APC and BPC expenditures


The University of Erfurt has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs and BPCs for the 2022 period.

Erfurt University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the German state of Thüringen (TMWWDG).

Contact person is Martina Schlütter.

Cost Data

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 11 articles, total expenditure amounts to 26 191€ and the average fee is 2 381€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Informa UK Limited 6 17549 2925
Brill 1 2558 2558
Elsevier BV 1 2392 2392
Frontiers Media SA 1 1032 1032
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1927 1927
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 733 733

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Erfurt 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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