RPTU joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) as new contributing institution!

The University Library provides funding for Open Access publishing.

An initial data set on on APCs for the 2023-2024 period and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements for 2023 has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Julia Heitmann-Pletsch.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the RPTU covers publication fees for 138 articles, total expenditure amounts to 367,949€ and the average fee is 2,666€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 45 120346 2674
MDPI AG 23 53429 2323
Elsevier BV 18 49270 2737
Frontiers Media SA 15 40866 2724
Wiley-Blackwell 7 13527 1932
Informa UK Limited 5 16735 3347
American Chemical Society (ACS) 3 12001 4000
American Physical Society (APS) 3 9011 3004
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 5821 2910
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 5301 2650
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 8145 4073
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 4960 2480
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4220 4220
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 1338 1338
American Psychological Association (APA) 1 3240 3240
ASME International 1 3282 3282
BMJ 1 3033 3033
Emerald 1 4092 4092
Norwegian Polar Institute 1 752 752
Optica Publishing Group 1 2466 2466
Pensoft Publishers 1 696 696
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 3104 3104
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd 1 2312 2312

Overview

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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