MLU Halle-Wittenberg reports its 2023 APC expenditures


The Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.

The MLU University and State Library (ULB) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2021.

Contact Person is Roberto Cozatl.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 137 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 319 555€ and the average fee is 2 333€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 47 118689 2525
MDPI AG 35 76813 2195
Frontiers Media SA 24 71158 2965
Wiley-Blackwell 8 17196 2150
Elsevier BV 6 5905 984
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 5 2077 415
BMJ 3 8472 2824
Informa UK Limited 3 7231 2410
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 4411 2206
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1835 1835
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2950 2950
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1934 1934
SAGE Publications 1 884 884

Overview

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