TU Braunschweig reports its 2018 APC expenditures


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

Braunschweig University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Carsten Elsner.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 63 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 74 602€ and the average fee is 1 184€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 33 32336 980
Frontiers Media SA 6 11826 1971
Springer Nature 4 6260 1565
Copernicus GmbH 3 4864 1621
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 4079 1360
Informa UK Limited 2 1583 792
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 475 238
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1404 702
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 2 1266 633
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3355 1678
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1650 1650
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1932 1932
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1602 1602
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1970 1970

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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