TU Dortmund reports its 2018 APC expenditures


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

Dortmund University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Dr. Kathrin Höhner.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 21 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 26 857€ and the average fee is 1 279€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 5 6649 1330
Springer Nature 4 6446 1611
Frontiers Media SA 3 4875 1625
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 775 775
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
Elsevier BV 1 869 869
Informa UK Limited 1 1389 1389
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 164 164
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 1 1000 1000
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2034 2034
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 684 684
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 900 900

Overview

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