The Technische Universität Dortmund has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 and 2021 period.
Dortmund University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Kathrin Höhner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 96 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 166 430€ and the average fee is 1 734€.
The following table shows the payments Dortmund University Library has made to publishers in 2020 and 2021.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 39 | 58902 | 1510 |
| Springer Nature | 23 | 52148 | 2267 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 16170 | 1617 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 6 | 13268 | 2211 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 4061 | 1354 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 4996 | 1665 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 3747 | 1874 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 3092 | 1546 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2846 | 1423 |
| Brill | 1 | 464 | 464 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1914 | 1914 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1584 | 1584 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 981 | 981 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1856 | 1856 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Dortmund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
