The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 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 a final update data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley in 2019.
Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 79 articles, total expenditure amounts to 115 281€ and the average fee is 1 459€.
The following table shows the payments Kassel University Library has made to publishers since its last contribution. 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 | 48 | 68749 | 1432 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 8 | 13335 | 1667 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 8913 | 1783 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3401 | 1700 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 3394 | 1697 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 2 | 800 | 400 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1516 | 1516 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1251 | 1251 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1739 | 1739 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2123 | 2123 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1631 | 1631 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 714 | 714 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 910 | 910 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1238 | 1238 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 955 | 955 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1681 | 1681 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1371 | 1371 |
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)
