TU Chemnitz reports its 2021 APC expenditures


Chemnitz University of Technology has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

Chemnitz 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 Ute Blumtritt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 58 articles, total expenditure amounts to 102,681€ and the average fee is 1,770€.

The following table shows the payments the Chemnitz University Library has made to publishers in 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 33 55353 1677
Springer Nature 8 17315 2164
Frontiers Media SA 6 11447 1908
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 6177 2059
Elsevier BV 2 4251 2125
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3237 1618
ARVO 1 1876 1876
PeerJ 1 1223 1223
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1027 1027
SAGE Publications 1 775 775

Overview

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