The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2018 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 160 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 233 149€ and the average fee is 1 457€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 39 | 44041 | 1129 |
| Springer Nature | 39 | 63984 | 1641 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 32 | 53727 | 1679 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 16 | 27952 | 1747 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 11749 | 1678 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 3393 | 679 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 6213 | 1553 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 4628 | 1543 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 1835 | 917 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 1827 | 914 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 3308 | 1654 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 764 | 764 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 913 | 913 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 184 | 184 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1925 | 1925 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 468 | 468 |
| Soil Science Society of America | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones | 1 | 238 | 238 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
