TU Chemnitz reports its 2020 APC expenditures


Chemnitz University of Technology has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

Chemnitz University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Ute Blumtritt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 44 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 63,783€ and the average fee is 1,450€.

The following table shows the payments the Chemnitz University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 25 37791 1512
Frontiers Media SA 8 9958 1245
Wiley-Blackwell 3 3898 1299
ARVO 1 2037 2037
Elsevier BV 1 510 510
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1999 1999
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2000 2000
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1743 1743
PeerJ 1 977 977
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1002 1002
Springer Nature 1 1868 1868

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Chemnitz 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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