The Technische Universität Darmstadt has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 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 106 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 169 953€ and the average fee is 1 603€.
The following table shows the payments the ULB has made to publishers in 2020 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 49 | 81577 | 1665 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 35582 | 1873 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 7456 | 1065 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 6 | 10424 | 1737 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 6563 | 1313 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 8172 | 1634 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 2962 | 987 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 2142 | 1071 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3875 | 1937 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3163 | 1581 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1815 | 1815 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1440 | 1440 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1752 | 1752 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1021 | 1021 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 756 | 756 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1253 | 1253 |
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)
