University of Salzburg reports its 2024/25 APC expenditures


The University of Salzburg has reported new APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the first half of 2025 funded by the university’s publication fund as well as non-funded publications for the 2024 period.

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 22 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 43,062€ and the average fee is 1,957€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 7 11616 1659
Elsevier BV 2 5489 2744
Frontiers Media SA 2 5974 2987
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 4699 2349
Copernicus GmbH 1 98 98
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 3000 3000
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1 2160 2160
MyJove Corporation 1 1500 1500
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 300 300
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1156 1156
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 3084 3084
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1172 1172
Springer Nature 1 2814 2814

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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