The KIT Library supports the publication of research findings in Open Access journals through its publication fund. KIT Library is the central library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The KIT publication fund is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
KIT Library has now released the expenditures made in 2014.
Contact person is Doris Jaeger.
Cost data
The dataset covers publication fees for 293 articles, which the fund covered between 2012 and 2014. Total expenditure amounts to 345 311€ and the average fee is 1 179€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT library has made to the publishers (including taxes)
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 80 | 102311 | 1279 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 53 | 81951 | 1546 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 35 | 43839 | 1253 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 33 | 40526 | 1228 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 19 | 12240 | 644 |
| IOP Publishing | 13 | 12426 | 956 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 12 | 12821 | 1068 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 5846 | 585 |
| KIT Scientific Publishing | 10 | 690 | 69 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 5 | 11472 | 2294 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 3509 | 1170 |
| ESG | 3 | 1500 | 500 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 1394 | 697 |
| Schweizerbart | 2 | 2541 | 1270 |
| InTech | 2 | 1180 | 590 |
| IGIP | 2 | 240 | 120 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 2996 | 1498 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 979 | 979 |
| RonPub UG | 1 | 240 | 240 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2535 | 2535 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 2038 | 2038 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 148 | 148 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 763 | 763 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 1 | 1125 | 1125 |
Fees paid per publisher
Average costs per year
Average costs per publisher
