The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2016 period.
The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Doris Jaeger.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 117 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 184 507€ and the average fee is 1 577€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2016.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 26 | 38561 | 1483 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 25 | 41664 | 1667 |
| MDPI AG | 17 | 17206 | 1012 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 15 | 29441 | 1963 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 19424 | 1942 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 6688 | 1672 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 3955 | 1318 |
| Schweizerbart | 3 | 5493 | 1831 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 5535 | 1845 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3676 | 1838 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 3522 | 1761 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1210 | 1210 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1839 | 1839 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 446 | 446 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 655 | 655 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
