The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 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 379 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 532 709€ and the average fee is 1 406€.
The following table shows the payments the TUM University Library has made to publishers in 2018.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 111 | 175680 | 1583 |
| MDPI AG | 82 | 86085 | 1050 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 61 | 107765 | 1767 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 34 | 52605 | 1547 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 15 | 18136 | 1209 |
| Elsevier BV | 15 | 16828 | 1122 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 10 | 16068 | 1607 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 14276 | 1586 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 5004 | 1001 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 5203 | 1301 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 7113 | 1778 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 2 | 922 | 461 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 1527 | 763 |
| Fuji Technology Press Ltd. | 2 | 1988 | 994 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 2987 | 1494 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2785 | 1392 |
| Jagiellonian University | 2 | 2340 | 1170 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1190 | 595 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1270 | 1270 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 767 | 767 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1452 | 1452 |
| Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1464 | 1464 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1840 | 1840 |
| J-STAGE | 1 | 284 | 284 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 1851 | 1851 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1298 | 1298 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 595 | 595 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Universitaet Innsbruck - Innsbruck University Press | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 238 | 238 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Wydawnictwo Naukowe Gabriel Borowski (WNGB) | 1 | 143 | 143 |
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)
