The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
When reporting their publication costs, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Rhiannon Schmitt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 81 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 221,042€ and the average fee is 2,729€. 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.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 32 | 100128 | 3129 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 15 | 44677 | 2978 |
| Informa UK Limited | 7 | 13940 | 1991 |
| IEEE | 6 | 14056 | 2343 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 9937 | 2484 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 4 | 10603 | 2651 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 8000 | 2000 |
| Brill | 1 | 2150 | 2150 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1741 | 1741 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2440 | 2440 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3664 | 3664 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 3580 | 3580 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1790 | 1790 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 347 | 347 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1989 | 1989 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 3 publications. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for these articles:
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)
