TU Braunschweig reports 2021-2023 APC expenditures


The Technische Universität Braunschweig has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021-2023 period.

Braunschweig University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact Person is Carsten Elsner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 330 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 528,071€ and the average fee is 1,600€.

The following table provides an overview. 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.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 189 315788 1671
Springer Nature 36 63289 1758
Frontiers Media SA 21 38830 1849
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 18 6819 379
Copernicus GmbH 15 23322 1555
Elsevier BV 14 19061 1362
Wiley-Blackwell 5 10059 2012
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 6073 1518
Optica Publishing Group 3 6103 2034
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 4820 1607
Informa UK Limited 2 2207 1104
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2 3808 1904
IOP Publishing 2 2987 1493
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3750 1875
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3269 1635
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 2 1553 776
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1839 1839
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1443 1443
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1517 1517
BMJ 1 3033 3033
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 899 899
Cogitatio 1 857 857
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1984 1984
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2450 2450
PAGEPress Publications 1 714 714
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1597 1597

Overview

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