The German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2021 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 333 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 552,546€ and the average fee is 1,659€.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 124 | 175364 | 1414 |
| Elsevier BV | 45 | 116050 | 2579 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 41 | 53503 | 1305 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 35 | 56236 | 1607 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 28 | 46942 | 1676 |
| Springer Nature | 12 | 16494 | 1375 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | 7 | 11731 | 1676 |
| EDP Sciences | 4 | 3200 | 800 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 8465 | 2116 |
| American Meteorological Society | 3 | 2784 | 928 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 6280 | 2093 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 6630 | 2210 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 3 | 5200 | 1733 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 6740 | 2247 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 4761 | 1587 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 6380 | 2127 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 5896 | 2948 |
| American Astronomical Society | 2 | 3955 | 1978 |
| ASME International | 2 | 5009 | 2505 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 1806 | 1806 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4496 | 4496 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1512 | 1512 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1718 | 1718 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1143 | 1143 |
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)
