The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Michael Normann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 402 articles, total expenditure amounts to 720,709€ and the average fee is 1,793€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 178 | 274886 | 1544 |
| Springer Nature | 79 | 174752 | 2212 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 51 | 106626 | 2091 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 41 | 71908 | 1754 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 21497 | 1954 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 16951 | 2119 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 10126 | 1447 |
| IEEE | 6 | 9789 | 1631 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 5023 | 1005 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 2621 | 1311 |
| Schweizerbart | 2 | 4119 | 2059 |
| AAAS | 1 | 1990 | 1990 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1068 | 1068 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3193 | 3193 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2380 | 2380 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1695 | 1695 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1945 | 1945 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3165 | 3165 |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Norwegian Polar Institute | 1 | 1106 | 1106 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1584 | 1584 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
