The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2021 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 data on articles published under the DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer in 2020.
Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 96 articles, total expenditure amounts to 155 093€ and the average fee is 1 616€.
The following table shows the payments Kassel University Library has made to publishers since its last contribution. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements 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 | 78781 | 1641 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 17 | 24914 | 1466 |
| Springer Nature | 9 | 21544 | 2394 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 2993 | 998 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 4065 | 1355 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2306 | 1153 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 3462 | 1731 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1255 | 1255 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1764 | 1764 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1994 | 1994 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 3328 | 3328 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1743 | 1743 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 955 | 955 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft | 1 | 1131 | 1131 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 597 | 597 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
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)
