The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
The TUM University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Gregor Reiss.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 350 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 570,021€ and the average fee is 1,629€.
The following table shows the payments the TUM University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 112 | 149632 | 1336 |
| Springer Nature | 93 | 181548 | 1952 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 55 | 98755 | 1796 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 24 | 48238 | 2010 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 18 | 30468 | 1693 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 10 | 13129 | 1313 |
| Elsevier BV | 10 | 12723 | 1272 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 4000 | 1333 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5275 | 1758 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 4311 | 1437 |
| AME Publishing Company | 2 | 3017 | 1508 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 2467 | 1233 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2362 | 1181 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Bern Open Publishing | 1 | 568 | 568 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1995 | 1995 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 1 | 627 | 627 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 322 | 322 |
| MYU K.K. | 1 | 1230 | 1230 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1360 | 1360 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 696 | 696 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1224 | 1224 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) | 1 | 2002 | 2002 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1276 | 1276 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TUM now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
