University of Konstanz reports its 2021 APC and BPC expenditures

The University of Konstanz has provided its APC and BPC expenditures for the 2021 period.

The Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Andreas Kirchner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 83 articles, total expenditure amounts to 164,198€ and the average fee is 1,978€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 26 45340 1744
Springer Nature 21 48835 2325
MDPI AG 13 23112 1778
Wiley-Blackwell 4 7038 1760
American Physical Society (APS) 3 5609 1870
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 5956 1985
Elsevier BV 2 5230 2615
Optica Publishing Group 2 5181 2590
AIP Publishing 1 2380 2380
ALTEX Edition 1 2000 2000
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 5051 5051
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1717 1717
IOP Publishing 1 1534 1534
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1578 1578
Open Library of the Humanities 1 457 457
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1991 1991
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1190 1190

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Konstanz 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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