TU Berlin reports its 2018 APC expenditures


The Technische Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

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.

This contribution contains additional expenditure data from other open access funds of the TU Berlin.

Contact Person is Marléne Friedrich.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 60 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 78 766€ and the average fee is 1 313€.

The following table shows the payments the TU Berlin has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 26 24723 951
Springer Nature 15 27675 1845
Frontiers Media SA 5 9551 1910
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 6755 1689
American Society for Microbiology 2 1021 511
IOP Publishing 2 3342 1671
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 769 769
Copernicus GmbH 1 1606 1606
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 1400 1400
Librello 1 323 323
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1330 1330
Veruscript 1 272 272

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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