The Technische Universität Darmstadt has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
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 137 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 203 001€ and the average fee is 1 482€.
The following table shows the payments the ULB has made to publishers in 2021 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 79 | 124048 | 1570 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 18 | 26963 | 1498 |
| Springer Nature | 9 | 13300 | 1478 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 5840 | 1168 |
| IEEE | 5 | 7289 | 1458 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 3857 | 1286 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5130 | 1710 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 5024 | 1675 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 2168 | 1084 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2025 | 1012 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 218 | 218 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1600 | 1600 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 986 | 986 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1405 | 1405 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 748 | 748 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Darmstadt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
