Kaposvár University

What Kaposvár University does

Kaposvár University was a public higher education institution in Hungary that operated as a center for agricultural and life sciences education until it merged into the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) in 2022. Its most visible ongoing operational artifact is the MATE Journals publishing platform (journal.uni-mate.hu), which serves as a centralized open access hub for 22 peer-reviewed academic journals spanning agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, horticulture, animal husbandry, food science, landscape architecture, economics, social sciences, education, and the arts.

The platform is built on Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source journal management and publishing application developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) at Simon Fraser University and used by more than 25,000 journals worldwide. It supports multi-language accessibility (Hungarian, English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese), hosts journals with heritage dating back to 1952 (Animal Breeding and Feeding), and includes titles founded at predecessor campuses such as Szent István University, Károly Róbert College, and Georgicon Campus. The platform's primary users are researchers, doctoral candidates, and academics publishing peer-reviewed scientific work; readers are distributed globally via open access distribution.

The platform operates without a commercial pricing model. As a state-funded university publishing service under the Hungarian Ministry of Innovation and Technology, its sustainability derives from public funding rather than subscriptions, article processing charges, or licensing revenue. There is no disclosed monetization of journal content; distribution is entirely digital via the OJS infrastructure, and the institutional value proposition is scholarly dissemination rather than revenue generation.

Name

Kaposvár University

Legal name

Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem)

Website

https://kaposvar.szie.hu

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Kaposvár University, merged into MATE in 2022, operates the MATE Journals open access publishing platform serving 22 peer-reviewed academic journals across agriculture, life sciences, and humanities for researchers and doctoral candidates in Hungary and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Journal Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC), Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAI), Life Sciences (Biology, Ecology, Agriculture) Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAC), Scholarly Society & Association Publishing (EDAGAFAK)

Keywords

• Academic journal publishing
• Open access publishing
• Scholarly communications
• Agricultural research journals
• Peer-reviewed publications

Headquarters

HQ city

Kaposvár

HQ country

Hungary

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Kaposvár University (now part of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences / MATE) operates an open access journal publishing platform hosted on Open Journal Systems (OJS). The platform serves as the central hub for peer-reviewed academic journals across agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, animal husbandry, food science, economics, social sciences, and arts. It provides researchers, scientists, and doctoral candidates with a venue to publish and disseminate their scientific work globally.

Product overview

MATE Journals is an OJS-based (Open Journal Systems) open access journal publishing platform serving as the central hub for the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE). The platform hosts 22 academic journals covering diverse disciplines including agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, landscape architecture, animal husbandry, food science, economics, social sciences, educational sciences, horticulture, and technical translation. The journals range from specialized publications like Acta Agraria Kaposváriensis (founded 1997) and Animal Breeding and Feeding (founded 1952) to newer initiatives like ARTCADIA (founded 2008) and COLUMELLA (founded 2014). The platform provides open access publishing infrastructure with peer-reviewed journals available in multiple languages including Hungarian, English, German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MATE Journals: The journal publishing platform for the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, hosting open access journals in various scientific disciplines.

Products and services

• 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Public Knowledge Project (PKP)coreTechnology or IntegrationMATE Journals uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), open source software developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) at Simon Fraser University. OJS is the most widely used open source journal publishing platform worldwide, with over 25,000 journals using it.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Public Knowledge Project (PKP): Developer of Open Journal Systems (OJS), the platform underpinning MATE Journals. Comparable as the upstream technology provider and ecosystem convener for the OJS publishing community.
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): Curated index of open access scholarly journals. Comparable as a key indexing and discovery infrastructure that MATE Journals' titles depend on for visibility.

Emerging players

• Copernicus Publications: Open access scientific publisher specializing in geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and related disciplines. Comparable as a mid-sized OA publisher with strong indexing and editorial infrastructure.
• Cogitatio Press: Open access academic publisher focused on social sciences and interdisciplinary research with a smaller curated journal portfolio. Comparable as a smaller-scale OA publisher competing for niche scholarly communities.
• Pensoft Publishers: Open access academic publisher with journals in biodiversity, ecology, and agricultural sciences. Comparable as a scholarly publisher serving European institutional research with a focus on life and environmental sciences.

Broad incumbents

• MDPI: One of the largest open access academic publishers globally, operating hundreds of peer-reviewed journals across disciplines. Comparable as a large-scale OA platform facing similar indexing, impact factor, and APC economics dynamics.
• Frontiers: Major open access publisher with a large portfolio of peer-reviewed journals across scientific disciplines. Comparable as a high-volume OA platform competing for the same author and readership ecosystem.
• De Gruyter Open: Major academic publisher with a significant open access journal portfolio, including many Central European institutional journals. Comparable as a publisher hosting scholarly journals from regional universities and academic societies.

Direct peers

• Akadémiai Kiadó: Hungary's leading academic publisher, operating the AKJournals platform with peer-reviewed scholarly journals across multiple disciplines. Directly comparable as a Hungarian scholarly publishing platform hosting discipline-spanning journals.
• Sciendo: Open access scholarly publishing platform owned by De Gruyter, hosting journals from Central and Eastern European academic institutions. Directly comparable as a regional OA journal hosting service with similar institutional publisher base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/kaposvaruniversity

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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