The German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
The DLR Library is responsible for compiling data sets on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides them to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Martin Wimmer.
Cost data
The new data sets cover publication fees for 288 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 451,367€ and the average fee is 1,567€.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 121 | 161828 | 1337 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 39 | 69097 | 1772 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 34 | 51323 | 1510 |
| Elsevier BV | 30 | 58570 | 1952 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 18514 | 1851 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | 9 | 15611 | 1735 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 10009 | 1430 |
| Schweizerbart | 6 | 9606 | 1601 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 10018 | 2004 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 9437 | 1887 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 7899 | 2633 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 4467 | 1489 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 1590 | 795 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 2896 | 1448 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 5095 | 2548 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4526 | 4526 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1070 | 1070 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 726 | 726 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1899 | 1899 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2434 | 2434 |
| The Electromagnetics Academy | 1 | 180 | 180 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2040 | 2040 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 393 | 393 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1341 | 1341 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the DLR now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
