TU Berlin reports its 2022 APC expenditures and TA data


The Technische Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period and articles published under the TIB transformative agreement with RSC in 2022.

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 Publication Funding Programme.

Contact Person is Michaela Voigt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 212 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 389 878€ and the average fee is 1 839€. 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 2022.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 89 145912 1639
Frontiers Media SA 44 78229 1778
Springer Nature 35 93648 2676
Wiley-Blackwell 9 19897 2211
Copernicus GmbH 6 9083 1514
Elsevier BV 6 8824 1471
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 6 11349 1892
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 3373 1124
Cogitatio 2 2202 1101
EDP Sciences 2 1178 589
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2 4760 2380
SAGE Publications 2 3209 1604
American Astronomical Society 1 1999 1999
IOP Publishing 1 1531 1531
MIT Press - Journals 1 972 972
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1879 1879
sub\urban e.V. 1 700 700
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1133 1133

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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