The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The TUM University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support 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 538 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,035,527€ and the average fee is 1,925€.
The following table shows the payments the TUM University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 190 | 431439 | 2271 |
| MDPI AG | 176 | 308016 | 1750 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 72 | 125803 | 1747 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 29 | 55043 | 1898 |
| Elsevier BV | 9 | 14795 | 1644 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 16304 | 2038 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 7396 | 1479 |
| IEEE | 5 | 8699 | 1740 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 4286 | 1429 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 4587 | 1529 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 6105 | 2035 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 3768 | 1884 |
| BMJ | 2 | 5179 | 2590 |
| Center for Transportation Studies | 2 | 1966 | 983 |
| EMBO | 2 | 8568 | 4284 |
| Federacion Espanola de Asociaciones de Docentes de Educacion Fisica (FEADEF) | 2 | 476 | 238 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 4284 | 2142 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4058 | 2029 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2937 | 1468 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 963 | 482 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1498 | 1498 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2013 | 2013 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1277 | 1277 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 752 | 752 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1237 | 1237 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1341 | 1341 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1214 | 1214 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 709 | 709 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 1983 | 1983 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1475 | 1475 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) | 1 | 2180 | 2180 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 536 | 536 |
| 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)
