University of Lucerne updates its APC and BPC expenditures


The University of Lucerne has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs and BPCs for the 2023 period.

The ZHB (Central and University Library of Lucerne) collects data on institutional APC and BPC expenditures.

Contact Person is Simone Rosenkranz.

Cost Data

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 7 articles, total expenditure amounts to 14 948€ and the average fee is 2 135€.

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
Springer Nature 2 5030 2515
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4921 2460
BMJ 1 2475 2475
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2253 2253
Peeters 1 269 269

Overview

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