The Technische Universität Darmstadt has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period.
The University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB) 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 Nicole Rosenke.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 73 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 106 245€ and the average fee is 1 455€.
The following table shows the payments the ULB has made to publishers in 2019 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 18 | 19323 | 1073 |
| Springer Nature | 17 | 29123 | 1713 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 13841 | 1538 |
| IEEE | 8 | 13910 | 1739 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 3284 | 657 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 6172 | 1543 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 5933 | 1978 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2226 | 1113 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 4473 | 2236 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1457 | 1457 |
| BioResources | 1 | 1474 | 1474 |
| EMBO | 1 | 2640 | 2640 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 178 | 178 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2210 | 2210 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Darmstadt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
