University of Konstanz reports its 2017 APC expenditures


The University of Konstanz has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2017 period.

The Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Anja Oberländer.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 61 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 105 944€ and the average fee is 1 737€.

The following table shows the payments the KIM has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 19 35016 1843
Springer Nature 14 23569 1684
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 20741 1595
IOP Publishing 4 7147 1787
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3151 1576
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3963 1981
ALTEX Edition 1 2000 2000
Cogitatio 1 952 952
Genetics Society of America 1 2175 2175
Informa UK Limited 1 1902 1902
MDPI AG 1 1264 1264
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1968 1968
Society for Neuroscience 1 2097 2097

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Konstanz 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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