TU Berlin joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Technische Universität Berlin as new contributing institution!

The TU Berlin University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Steffi Grimm.

Cost data

The first dataset provided by the TU covers publication fees for 30 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 40 074€ and the average fee is 1 336€.

The following table shows the payments the TU Berlin University Library has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 14 17019 1216
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 6193 1548
Frontiers Media SA 3 5490 1830
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 2500 1250
AIP Publishing 1 1325 1325
BMJ 1 1425 1425
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 634 634
Copernicus GmbH 1 1067 1067
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1768 1768
Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod 1 718 718
Springer Nature 1 1934 1934

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Berlin 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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