The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.
The TUM University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Christian Pauls.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 307 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 434 375€ and the average fee is 1 415€.
The following table shows the payments the TUM University Library has made to publishers in 2017.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 106 | 166377 | 1570 |
| MDPI AG | 45 | 48777 | 1084 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 42 | 66715 | 1588 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 37 | 67239 | 1817 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 13555 | 1232 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 8 | 5818 | 727 |
| Elsevier BV | 8 | 11271 | 1409 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 8818 | 1470 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 6871 | 1374 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 4234 | 1059 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 2670 | 667 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 2356 | 785 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 5508 | 1836 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 4716 | 1572 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 2036 | 679 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1832 | 916 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1129 | 564 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1519 | 1519 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1538 | 1538 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 460 | 460 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 505 | 505 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1224 | 1224 |
| innsbruck university press | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1589 | 1589 |
| International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) | 1 | 357 | 357 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 227 | 227 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 520 | 520 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 871 | 871 |
| Joule Inc. | 1 | 1625 | 1625 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1532 | 1532 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 881 | 881 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TUM now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
