University of Linz reports its 2024 APC expenditures


The Johannes Kepler University Linz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2024 period.

The JKU library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing. Additionally, the data submission includes articles funded by the FWF (Austrian Science fund).

Contact Person is Susanne Luger.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 58 articles, total expenditure amounts to 141,225€ and the average fee is 2,435€.

The following table shows the payments the JKU library has made to publishers in 2024 (including taxes and discounts). Please note that articles funded by the FWF are not included in this list.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 30 75230 2508
Frontiers Media SA 14 32234 2302
Springer Nature 8 26346 3293
American Physical Society (APS) 1 3098 3098
Indonesian Mathematical Society 1 367 367
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1138 1138
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 2308 2308
Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang 1 248 248
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 255 255

Overview

The following plots provide a detailed overview of all data contributed by the University of Linz up to now:

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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