University of Konstanz reports its 2016 APC expenditures


The University of Konstanz has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 period.

Konstanz University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Anja Oberländer.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 67 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 123 516€ and the average fee is 1 844€.

The following table shows the payments Konstanz University Library has made to publishers in 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 18 36750 2042
Frontiers Media SA 15 25403 1694
ALTEX Edition 8 16000 2000
Wiley-Blackwell 7 10902 1557
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 9607 1921
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 9346 2336
IOP Publishing 3 3883 1294
PeerJ 2 1502 751
Berlin Regener Publishing House 1 289 289
Elsevier BV 1 3480 3480
Informa UK Limited 1 1529 1529
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2627 2627
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2197 2197

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for 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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