TU Chemnitz reports its 2018 APC expenditures


Chemnitz University of Technology has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

Chemnitz 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 Ute Blumtritt.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 25 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 28 713€ and the average fee is 1 149€.

The following table shows the payments the Chemnitz University Library has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 10 10121 1012
Springer Nature 4 5794 1449
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 2027 676
Frontiers Media SA 2 2966 1483
IOP Publishing 2 1428 714
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2967 1483
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1892 1892
Elsevier BV 1 1517 1517

Overview

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