TU Dortmund reports its 2019 APC expenditures


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

Dortmund University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Kathrin Höhner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 38 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 47 619€ and the average fee is 1 253€.

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

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 20 27848 1392
Elsevier BV 3 2773 924
Frontiers Media SA 3 4952 1651
Springer Nature 3 5343 1781
Cogitatio 2 2142 1071
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 500 250
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 810 810
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 170 170
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1691 1691
sub\urban e.V. 1 400 400
Wiley-Blackwell 1 990 990

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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