The University of Kassel has joined openapc.github.io and is sharing its expenditures for publications in Open Access journals. The University Library is in charge of the Open Access Publication Funds of the university, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Justus Liebig University Giessen supports the publication of research findings in Open Access journals through its OA Publication Fund. The fund has been financially supported by the DFG Open-Access Publishing Programme since 2011.
The Ruhr Universität Bochum has joined openapc.github.io and is sharing its expenditures for publications in Open Access journals. The University Library is in charge of the Open Access Publication Funds of the university, which has been receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme since 2014.
The Technische Universität Dresden has joined openapc.github.io and is sharing its expenditures for publications in Open Access journals. The Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) is in charge of the Open Access Publication Funds of the TU Dresden, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
The Technische Universität Dortmund has joined openapc.github.io and is sharing its expenditures for publications in Open Access journals. The university library is in charge of the Open Access Publication Funds of the TU Dortmund.
We welcome Technische Universität Chemnitz as our new contributing institution. Chemnitz University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has joined openapc.github.io and is sharing its expenditures for publications in both Open Access and toll-access journals.
In a recent White Paper, Max Planck Digital Library discusses scenarios under which libraries can support the transition of journals from toll-access to Open Access. The study considers mean APCs paid and relates those figures to subscription costs and the number of journal articles published on a country and institutional level. The authors conclude that a move from subscription to open access journal publishing is possible without added expense.
The University Library of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München has updated its dataset about author fees paid for publishing in BioMed Central journals.
Konstanz University Library has provided their APC invoices for 2014. The library is in charge of the central publication fund at the University of Konstanz, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.