University of Kassel reports its 2017 APC expenditures

The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2017 period.

Kassel University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 23 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 25 699€ and the average fee is 1 117€.

The following table shows the payments Kassel University Library has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 12 9249 771
Frontiers Media SA 5 9680 1936
Springer Nature 2 3247 1624
Asian Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies 1 479 479
IOP Publishing 1 1207 1207
Pensoft Publishers 1 321 321
The Company of Biologists 1 1516 1516

Overview

With the two recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Kassel 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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Max Planck Digital Library reports 2017 expenditures Wiley journals

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has reported its 2017 expenditures Wiley journals.

MPDL provides institutional funding for Open Access publications for researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Society. MPDL makes use of central agreements with Open Access publishers.

Please note that article processing charges funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of this data set. The Max Planck Society has a limited input tax reduction. The refund of input VAT for APC is 20%.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 22 articles published by MPG researchers in Wiley journals. Total expenditure amounts to 62 425€ and the average fee is 2 838€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Advanced Science 7 32774 4682
Ecology and Evolution 4 6385 1596
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 4 6517 1629
Plant Biotechnology Journal 2 5303 2652
Brain and Behavior 1 2095 2095
Earth’s Future 1 1664 1664
MicrobiologyOpen 1 2327 2327
Molecular Systems Biology 1 3882 3882
Physiological Reports 1 1479 1479

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MPG 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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Ulm University updates its 2016 and 2017 APC expenditures

Ulm University has updated its APC expenditures, providing additional data for 2016 and new data for the 2017 period.

Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Uli Hahn.

Cost data

The new 2017 dataset covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 101 079€ and the average fee is 1 713€.

The following table shows the payments Ulm University Library has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 27 51175 1895
Springer Nature 9 14946 1661
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 12108 1513
IOP Publishing 4 5346 1336
MDPI AG 3 3597 1199
Elsevier BV 2 3202 1601
AIP Publishing 1 1490 1490
BMJ 1 2856 2856
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2510 2510
Informa UK Limited 1 1410 1410
Japan Epidemiological Association 1 446 446
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1992 1992

Overview

With the two recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Ulm 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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