KIT reports its 2020 APC expenditures
21 Jun 2021The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Doris Jaeger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 255 articles, total expenditure amounts to 398,239€ and the average fee is 1,562€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 104 | 154490 | 1485 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 45 | 75659 | 1681 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 30 | 52350 | 1745 |
| Springer Nature | 22 | 37569 | 1708 |
| Elsevier BV | 9 | 10415 | 1157 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 12360 | 1545 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 11147 | 1592 |
| IEEE | 5 | 8365 | 1673 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5780 | 1927 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 2711 | 904 |
| AAAS | 2 | 4000 | 2000 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 3224 | 1612 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 2836 | 1418 |
| Schweizerbart | 2 | 3869 | 1934 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1919 | 1919 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 824 | 824 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1790 | 1790 |
| Exeley, Inc. | 1 | 571 | 571 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1069 | 1069 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1746 | 1746 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1049 | 1049 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 580 | 580 |
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)
