The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2017 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 132 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 198 009€ and the average fee is 1 500€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 41 | 62065 | 1514 |
| Springer Nature | 30 | 50750 | 1692 |
| MDPI AG | 16 | 17550 | 1097 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 7 | 11545 | 1649 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 6 | 9671 | 1612 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 7593 | 1898 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 4517 | 1506 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5112 | 1704 |
| Schweizerbart | 3 | 4779 | 1593 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 5022 | 1674 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2 | 3750 | 1875 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 1340 | 670 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1726 | 863 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1367 | 1367 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1521 | 1521 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 940 | 940 |
| International Journal of Engineering Research and Development | 1 | 182 | 182 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 509 | 509 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| MedCrave Group, LLC | 1 | 897 | 897 |
| Remedy Publications | 1 | 1801 | 1801 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 1373 | 1373 |
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)
