The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2018 period.
Kassel University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 52 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 60 176€ and the average fee is 1 157€.
The following table shows the payments Kassel University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 31 | 28020 | 904 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 5 | 8842 | 1768 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 6746 | 1349 |
| Springer Nature | 4 | 7253 | 1813 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 4706 | 1569 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1896 | 1896 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the two recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Kassel now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
