University of Kassel reports its 2020 APC expenditures


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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