The University of Konstanz has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.
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 81 articles, total expenditure amounts to 160,603€ and the average fee is 1,983€.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 25 | 42220 | 1689 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 37800 | 2520 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 13900 | 1738 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 10028 | 1433 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 5 | 20177 | 4035 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 7301 | 1460 |
| ALTEX Edition | 4 | 8000 | 2000 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 5902 | 1967 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 1643 | 822 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3373 | 3373 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1523 | 1523 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1475 | 1475 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1040 | 1040 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2120 | 2120 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 3200 | 3200 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Konstanz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
