TU Berlin reports its 2021 APC expenditures and TA data


The Technische Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period and articles published under the TIB transformative agreement with RSC in 2021.

The TU Berlin University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Michaela Voigt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 188 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 320 079€ and the average fee is 1 703€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under transformative agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

The following table shows the APC payments the TU Berlin has made to publishers in 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 96 161248 1680
Springer Nature 34 72128 2121
Frontiers Media SA 29 47509 1638
Copernicus GmbH 7 10963 1566
Elsevier BV 4 5427 1357
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 3824 1275
SAGE Publications 3 3474 1158
Cogitatio 2 2142 1071
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3550 1775
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4427 2213
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1312 1312
Informa UK Limited 1 1053 1053
MIT Press - Journals 1 844 844
Pensoft Publishers 1 910 910
sub\urban e.V. 1 700 700
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 566 566

Overview

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