University of Konstanz reports its 2018 and 2019 APC expenditures


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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