TU Berlin reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The Technische Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 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.

Contact Person is Michaela Voigt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 88 articles (86 articles funded in 2019, 2 articles funded in 2018). Total expenditure amounts to 125 875€ and the average fee is 1 430€.

The following table shows the payments the TU Berlin has made to publishers in 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 27 30878 1144
Frontiers Media SA 16 23608 1475
Springer Nature 15 31571 2105
IOP Publishing 3 5426 1809
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 5437 1812
Copernicus GmbH 2 1671 835
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3109 1555
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2011 1006
SAGE Publications 2 3262 1631
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 892 446
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3427 1714
American Society for Microbiology 1 1986 1986
Bern Open Publishing 1 583 583
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
Elsevier BV 1 559 559
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2012 2012
Informa UK Limited 1 631 631
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 1208 1208
International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (IJABE) 1 1921 1921
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 265 265
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2126 2126
Omnia Publisher SL 1 351 351
Soil Science Society of America 1 1868 1868

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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