The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2019 period.
Kassel University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
In addition, Kassel University Library has also reported cost data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.
Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 62 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 81 087€ and the average fee is 1 308€.
The following table shows the payments Kassel University Library has made to publishers in 2019. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 29 | 30600 | 1055 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 8 | 13943 | 1743 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 11822 | 1689 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 10528 | 1504 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2570 | 1285 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 3171 | 1586 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1878 | 1878 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1702 | 1702 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 669 | 669 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 991 | 991 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution 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)
