09 Apr 2019
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

05 Apr 2019
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

02 Apr 2019
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
