University of Kassel reports its 2016 APC expenditures


The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2016 period.

Kassel University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.

Cost data

Kassel’s APC expenditures for 2016 include 20 articles, amounting to 23 961€ and an average fee of 1 198€.

The following table shows the payments the library has made to publishers in 2016:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 6 7777 1296
MDPI AG 5 3326 665
Frontiers Media SA 2 3987 1994
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3317 1658
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3072 1536
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1511 1511
Pensoft Publishers 1 273 273
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 698 698

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for University of 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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