University of Konstanz updates its 2015 APC expenditures


Konstanz University Library has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution provides a large dataset for the 2015 period.

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 90 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 136 882€ and the average fee is 1 521€.

The following table shows the payments the Konstanz University Library has made to publishers in 2015.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 27 39767 1473
Springer Science + Business Media 16 20702 1294
ALTEX Edition 13 25809 1985
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 15109 1511
The Optical Society 4 7515 1879
IOP Publishing 4 5718 1430
Co-Action Publishing 4 6242 1560
Wiley-Blackwell 3 4276 1425
MDPI AG 2 3261 1630
Informa UK Limited 2 2843 1422
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 298 298
Nature Publishing Group 1 1386 1386
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 634 634
Elsevier BV 1 1581 1581
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1741 1741

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for University of 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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