TU Braunschweig reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The Technische Universität Braunschweig has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 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 data set covers publication fees for 101 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 121 605€ and the average fee is 1 204€.

The following table shows the payments Braunschweig University Library has made to publishers in 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 54 60724 1125
Frontiers Media SA 11 19929 1812
Elsevier BV 6 3856 643
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 6861 1715
Springer Nature 4 5710 1427
Copernicus GmbH 3 2904 968
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 3 758 253
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 1644 822
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 3534 1767
IOP Publishing 2 2499 1250
Soil Science Society of America 2 3901 1951
American Society for Microbiology 1 1093 1093
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1345 1345
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1568 1568
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2102 2102
PAGEPress Publications 1 714 714
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1033 1033
Science and Education Publishing 1 433 433
Universidad de Costa Rica 1 998 998

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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