KIT reports its 2018 APC expenditures


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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