The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2019 period.
The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Doris Jaeger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 232 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 329 661€ and the average fee is 1 421€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2019.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 79 | 94830 | 1200 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 44 | 68968 | 1567 |
| Springer Nature | 41 | 67841 | 1655 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 32273 | 1699 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 15381 | 1709 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 9548 | 1591 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 5335 | 1067 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 4610 | 922 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 5170 | 1723 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 2301 | 767 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 5132 | 1711 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 2893 | 1446 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 1404 | 702 |
| Schweizerbart | 2 | 3818 | 1909 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 2595 | 1298 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 856 | 856 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1075 | 1075 |
| Göller Verlag GmbH | 1 | 1092 | 1092 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1809 | 1809 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 491 | 491 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 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)
