University of Salzburg reports its 2024 APC expenditures


The University of Salzburg has reported new APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the fourth quarter of 2024 funded by the university’s publication fund as well as data funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in 2024.

The University Library Salzburg manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.

Contact Person is Linda Ohrtmann.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 27 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 76,526€ and the average fee is 2,834€.

The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 11 36861 3351
MDPI AG 5 10969 2194
Frontiers Media SA 3 10043 3348
Cogitatio 2 2400 1200
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 4821 2411
Informa UK Limited 1 3421 3421
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 2454 2454
Society for Neuroscience 1 4117 4117
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1440 1440

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Salzburg 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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