TU Berlin reports its 2020 APC expenditures


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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