KIT reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2018 period.

The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Doris Jaeger.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 160 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 233 149€ and the average fee is 1 457€.

The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 39 44041 1129
Springer Nature 39 63984 1641
Copernicus GmbH 32 53727 1679
Frontiers Media SA 16 27952 1747
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 11749 1678
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 5 3393 679
IOP Publishing 4 6213 1553
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 4628 1543
Elsevier BV 2 1835 917
Informa UK Limited 2 1827 914
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3308 1654
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2000 2000
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 764 764
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 1 913 913
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2000 2000
SAGE Publications 1 184 184
Schweizerbart 1 1925 1925
Science Publishing Group 1 468 468
Soil Science Society of America 1 2000 2000
Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones 1 238 238

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 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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University of Frankfurt reports its remaining 2018 APC expenditures

The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, providing its remaining data for the 2018 period.

The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Roland Wagner.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 99 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 169 052€ and the average fee is 1 708€:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 27 51555 1909
Springer Nature 17 34436 2026
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 18979 1582
MDPI AG 11 14450 1314
Wiley-Blackwell 7 12474 1782
BMJ 3 4698 1566
Elsevier BV 3 4431 1477
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 3 1800 600
SAGE Publications 3 2430 810
Copernicus GmbH 2 3550 1775
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1945 1945
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 2378 2378
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2616 2616
EMBO 1 3927 3927
European Association of Geochemistry 1 1250 1250
Informa UK Limited 1 1950 1950
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1046 1046
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1385 1385
IOP Publishing 1 1392 1392
PeerJ 1 796 796
The Company of Biologists 1 1563 1563

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Frankfurt now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Greifswald joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Greifswald as new contributing institution!

Greifswald University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Stefanie Bollin.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by the University of Greifswald contains information on publication fees paid in 2018.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 15 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 21 880€ and the average fee is 1 459€.

The following table and plots show the payments Greifswald University Library has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 5 8092 1618
Springer Nature 4 6710 1678
MDPI AG 3 3752 1251
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 390 390
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1222 1222
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1714 1714

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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