TU München reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.

The TUM University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

In addition, TUM University Library has also reported cost data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.

Contact person is Gregor Reiss.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 471 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 679 697€ and the average fee is 1 443€.

The following table shows the payments the TUM University Library has made to publishers in 2019. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 130 144581 1112
Springer Nature 119 188434 1583
Frontiers Media SA 92 165818 1802
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 29 47992 1655
Copernicus GmbH 20 18318 916
Elsevier BV 14 12411 886
American Physical Society (APS) 11 23984 2180
Wiley-Blackwell 8 11452 1431
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 6 9986 1664
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 5 8564 1713
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 6875 1719
SAGE Publications 4 3659 915
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 2071 690
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 2 3094 1547
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 1585 793
American Society for Microbiology 2 2772 1386
Informa UK Limited 2 3998 1999
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 2109 1054
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2016 1008
AME Publishing Company 1 1787 1787
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1251 1251
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
EMBO 1 3142 3142
IOP Publishing 1 1428 1428
Jagiellonian University 1 1008 1008
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2021 2021
Joule Inc. 1 1463 1463
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1215 1215
PAGEPress Publications 1 631 631
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 1 666 666
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 1204 1204
University of Uludag 1 1785 1785
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 1309 1309

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TUM 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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