University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern joins OpenAPC

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern covers publication fees for 8 articles, total expenditure amounts to 13,987€ and the average fee is 1,748€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 5 8532 1706
Elsevier BV 1 2120 2120
Frontiers Media SA 1 955 955
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2380 2380

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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