TU Dortmund reports its 2017 APC expenditures


The Technische Universität Dortmund has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.

Dortmund University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Dr. Kathrin Höhner.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 18 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 26 832€ and the average fee is 1 491€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 5 9514 1903
MDPI AG 3 5265 1755
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 252 126
IOP Publishing 2 2746 1373
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2934 1467
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1501 1501
Frontiers Media SA 1 2366 2366
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1855 1855
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 400 400

Overview

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