TU Berlin reports 2018 to 2020 BPC expenditures


The Technische Universität Berlin has provided BPC expenditures for the 2018 to 2020 period.

The TU Berlin University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which also supports publishing of OA monographs.

Contact person is Michaela Voigt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 13 books. Total expenditure amounts to 84 524€ and the average fee is 6 502€.

The following tables and plots provide an overview of the payments the TU Library has made to book publishers from 2018 to 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer International Publishing 3 23044 7681
transcript Verlag 3 21929 7310
Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2 19471 9736
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2 11263 5632
Büchner-Verlag 1 3580 3580
Peter Lang 1 4760 4760
Ruby Press Berlin 1 476 476

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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