TU Darmstadt reports additional 2020 APC expenditures


The Technische Universität Darmstadt has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL contracts in 2020.

The University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Nicole Rosenke.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 22 207€ and the average fee is 1 708€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 7 12983 1855
Wiley-Blackwell 6 9225 1537

Overview

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