University of Konstanz 2022 data integrated
12 Jan 2024The 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 Konstanz had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
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 93 articles, total expenditure amounts to 202,543€ and the average fee is 2,178€.
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 | 61071 | 2349 |
| Springer Nature | 14 | 31314 | 2237 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 20889 | 2089 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 20923 | 2325 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 9993 | 1999 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 5 | 8925 | 1785 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 9191 | 2298 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 10912 | 2728 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 5940 | 2970 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3326 | 1663 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1653 | 1653 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1284 | 1284 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2143 | 2143 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2006 | 2006 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3395 | 3395 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2362 | 2362 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1261 | 1261 |
| Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology | 1 | 1150 | 1150 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2330 | 2330 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 910 | 910 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1208 | 1208 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 355 | 355 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Konstanz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
