The University of Rostock has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period and some additions for 2023.
Rostock University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact Person is Steffen Malo.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 158 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 289 324€ and the average fee is 1 831€.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 381 | 621093 | 1630 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 170 | 350547 | 2062 |
| Springer Nature | 140 | 267353 | 1910 |
| Elsevier BV | 28 | 49738 | 1776 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 26 | 41935 | 1613 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 25 | 40887 | 1635 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 12 | 5031 | 419 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 11871 | 1319 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 8 | 11300 | 1412 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 7 | 8269 | 1181 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 9193 | 1839 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 9054 | 1811 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 4 | 6926 | 1731 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 4 | 6315 | 1579 |
| RonPub | 4 | 749 | 187 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 5921 | 1480 |
| AME Publishing Company | 3 | 4380 | 1460 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 7174 | 2391 |
| Bioflux | 2 | 371 | 186 |
| Eurasian Society of Educational Research | 2 | 729 | 364 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 1788 | 894 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 2 | 3527 | 1764 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 4069 | 2035 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2235 | 1118 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2 | 1500 | 750 |
| The Korean Society of Phycology | 2 | 789 | 395 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1071 | 536 |
| Aging and Disease | 1 | 1940 | 1940 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 549 | 549 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 3130 | 3130 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 2011 | 2011 |
| Biology Centre, AS CR | 1 | 178 | 178 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1875 | 1875 |
| Brill | 1 | 1583 | 1583 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 1 | 1299 | 1299 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1994 | 1994 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1044 | 1044 |
| David Publishing Company | 1 | 299 | 299 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1770 | 1770 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1142 | 1142 |
| HARD Publishing Company | 1 | 982 | 982 |
| Korean Society for Stem Cell Research | 1 | 455 | 455 |
| Open Medical Publishing | 1 | 1302 | 1302 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1151 | 1151 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 982 | 982 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1519 | 1519 |
| Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO Press) | 1 | 684 | 684 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 624 | 624 |
| Sciaccess Publishers LLC | 1 | 1216 | 1216 |
| Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd. | 1 | 1332 | 1332 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology | 1 | 620 | 620 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Rostock now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
