The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2015 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 135 articles, which the fund covered in 2015 so far. Total expenditure amounts to 179 147€ and the average fee is 1 327€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT Library has made to publishers in 2015.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 45 | 56427 | 1254 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 18 | 28415 | 1579 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 12 | 12744 | 1062 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 12 | 21380 | 1782 |
| MDPI AG | 11 | 12562 | 1142 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 11963 | 1329 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 12554 | 1395 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 1246 | 623 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2880 | 1440 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 754 | 377 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 775 | 775 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1632 | 1632 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| ESG | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| EJournal Publishing | 1 | 231 | 231 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 1 | 1606 | 1606 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1766 | 1766 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1460 | 1460 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the KIT now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
