Passau U 2024 data integrated


The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the University of Passau had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

Contact person for the data set is Alena Tenchova-Janzik.

Cost data

The new data covers APCs for 6 articles (6 unrelated to any agreement, 0 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 11,817€ and the average fee is 1,970€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 3 5823 1941
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2722 2722
MDPI AG 1 2380 2380
SDEWES Centre 1 892 892

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Passau 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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