The University of Konstanz has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the years 2018 and 2019.
The Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Anja Oberländer.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 140 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 228 843€ and the average fee is 1 635€.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 39 | 78704 | 2018 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 33 | 52040 | 1577 |
| MDPI AG | 15 | 19621 | 1308 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 12 | 16959 | 1413 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 15113 | 1511 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 9248 | 2312 |
| ALTEX Edition | 3 | 6000 | 2000 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 6586 | 2195 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 2143 | 714 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 3 | 815 | 272 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3098 | 1549 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2705 | 1352 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2810 | 1405 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 4497 | 2249 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 1575 | 788 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 836 | 418 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4013 | 4013 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Konstanz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
