Fulda University of Applied Sciences joins OpenAPC


The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Fulda University of Applied Sciences had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by Fulda covers publication fees for 7 articles, total expenditure amounts to 12,021€ and the average fee is 1,717€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 3 6306 2102
MDPI AG 2 3586 1793
BMJ 1 2057 2057
Informa UK Limited 1 72 72

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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