University of Kassel 2022 APC data integrated

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 Kassel had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

Kassel University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 94 articles, total expenditure amounts to 170 776€ and the average fee is 1 817€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 53 103100 1945
Frontiers Media SA 17 35641 2097
Springer Nature 5 9931 1986
Cogitatio 4 3808 952
Elsevier BV 2 4403 2202
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 2142 1071
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1489 1489
American Dairy Science Association 1 1040 1040
Copernicus GmbH 1 414 414
Informa UK Limited 1 839 839
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1405 1405
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 1999 1999
Palermo University Press 1 350 350
Pensoft Publishers 1 774 774
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 2184 2184
sub\urban e.V. 1 700 700
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 557 557

Overview

With the recent contribution 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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