The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2023 period.
The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Rhiannon Schmitt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 370 articles, total expenditure amounts to 765,140€ and the average fee is 2,068€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2023.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 131 | 259325 | 1980 |
| Springer Nature | 57 | 147911 | 2595 |
| Elsevier BV | 32 | 57219 | 1788 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 30 | 62507 | 2084 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 27 | 49778 | 1844 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 27 | 64282 | 2381 |
| IEEE | 10 | 19191 | 1919 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 20011 | 2223 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 6 | 8601 | 1434 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 5 | 15731 | 3146 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 4 | 6956 | 1739 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 4 | 6188 | 1547 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 7068 | 1767 |
| VDI Fachmedien GmbH and Co. KG | 4 | 6667 | 1667 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 527 | 264 |
| University of Pitesti | 2 | 357 | 178 |
| AAAS | 1 | 4188 | 4188 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 4042 | 4042 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1708 | 1708 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2321 | 2321 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 572 | 572 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2272 | 2272 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3575 | 3575 |
| Open Access Pub | 1 | 1332 | 1332 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1905 | 1905 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 3479 | 3479 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1729 | 1729 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 476 | 476 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 757 | 757 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 2261 | 2261 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
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)
