University of Kiel updates its APC expenditures


The Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

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 new data set covers publication fees for 152 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 247 475€ and the average fee is 1 628€.

The following table shows the payments the Kiel University Library has reported for 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 63 105770 1679
Springer Nature 56 95449 1704
Wiley-Blackwell 6 7284 1214
Elsevier BV 4 6640 1660
Frontiers Media SA 3 2518 839
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5664 1888
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3511 1756
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3500 1750
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 2829 1414
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1622 1622
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1012 1012
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 449 449
IOP Publishing 1 1428 1428
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1893 1893
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1631 1631
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 650 650
PeerJ 1 1224 1224
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1037 1037
S. Karger AG 1 1696 1696
Verduci 1 1666 1666

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Kiel 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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