University of Kiel joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as new contributing institution!

Kiel University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Eike Hentschel .

Cost data

The initial data set contributed by Kiel University Library covers publication fees for 59 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 88 705€ and the average fee is 1 503€.

The following table shows the payments Kiel University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 25 38824 1553
Springer Nature 8 13774 1722
Frontiers Media SA 7 12077 1725
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6693 1673
Copernicus GmbH 3 4845 1615
AME Publishing Company 2 2836 1418
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3260 1630
sub\urban e.V. 2 800 400
AIP Publishing 1 1332 1332
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1906 1906
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 850 850
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin 1 325 325
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 949 949
Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones 1 232 232

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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