Konstanz University Library has provided their APC invoices for 2014. The library is in charge of the central publication fund at the University of Konstanz, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Anja Oberländer.
Cost data
The dataset covers publication fees for 131 articles, which the fund covered between 2012 and 2014. Total expenditure amounts to 163 374€ and the average fee is 1 247€.
Fees paid per publisher between 2012 -2014 (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
The following table shows the payments Konstanz University Library has made (including taxes).-
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 44 | 54998 | 1250 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 32 | 40198 | 1256 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 20 | 31447 | 1572 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 9 | 11920 | 1324 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 4910 | 1228 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 3 | 1331 | 444 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 3914 | 1305 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 2445 | 815 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 2 | 2291 | 1145 |
| InTech | 2 | 1523 | 762 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 2 | 968 | 484 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1821 | 1821 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 524 | 524 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1804 | 1804 |
| Environmental Health Perspectives | 1 | 1315 | 1315 |
| Annex Publishers, LLC | 1 | 725 | 725 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1105 | 1105 |
| Academy and Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) | 1 | 137 | 137 |