Bielefeld University reports 2024 APC data


Bielefeld University has reported APC data for the 2024 period. This is a manual contribution which adds missing data, from 2025 on, all data will be harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University.

Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Dirk Pieper.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 188 articles, total expenditure amounts to 452 353€ and the average fee is 2 406€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 53 117859 2224
MDPI AG 41 101386 2473
Frontiers Media SA 36 99038 2751
Wiley-Blackwell 21 57041 2716
Elsevier BV 16 30365 1898
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 15429 2572
American Society for Microbiology 2 2841 1420
Informa UK Limited 2 3939 1970
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3472 1736
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 3320 3320
BMJ 1 3033 3033
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 2162 2162
Knowledge Enterprise Journals 1 1101 1101
Microbiology Society 1 2999 2999
PeerJ 1 1184 1184
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 3354 3354
SAGE Publications 1 2645 2645
Science Publishing Group 1 1185 1185

Overview

The overall APC data for Bielefeld 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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