Fachhochschule Südwestfalen reports its 2024 expenditures


The Fachhochschule Südwestfalen has updated its expenditures, providing data on APCs and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature for the 2024 period.

The University Library is in charge of the University’s Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Meike Weinreich.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 6 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 8,203€ and the average fee is 1,367€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

The following table shows the payments the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen has made to publishers in 2024.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 3 4904 1635
Elsevier BV 1 882 882
IEEE 1 2018 2018
Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH 1 399 399

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen 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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