The Technische Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
The TU Berlin University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2020.
Contact Person is Michaela Voigt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 193 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 276 988€ and the average fee is 1 435€.
The following table shows the APC payments the TU Berlin has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 99 | 131702 | 1330 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 31 | 44599 | 1439 |
| Springer Nature | 18 | 33637 | 1869 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 10 | 15703 | 1570 |
| IOP Publishing | 8 | 13038 | 1630 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 10162 | 1452 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 5 | 8434 | 1687 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6512 | 1628 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 3417 | 1709 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 2 | 1100 | 550 |
| ALTEX Edition | 1 | 1914 | 1914 |
| Bern Open Publishing | 1 | 583 | 583 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1710 | 1710 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1166 | 1166 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1132 | 1132 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 968 | 968 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1209 | 1209 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
