The German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.
The DLR Library is responsible for compiling data sets on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides them to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Martin Wimmer.
Cost data
The new data sets cover publication fees for 286 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 546,275€ and the average fee is 1,910€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 87 | 151348 | 1740 |
| Elsevier BV | 51 | 131360 | 2576 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 34 | 52915 | 1556 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 28 | 43849 | 1566 |
| Springer Nature | 23 | 42027 | 1827 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 42423 | 2233 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 5 | 9706 | 1941 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 8488 | 1698 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | 4 | 8629 | 2157 |
| Schweizerbart | 4 | 5271 | 1318 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 7470 | 2490 |
| Institute of Navigation | 3 | 3889 | 1296 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 7797 | 2599 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 2 | 3105 | 1553 |
| American Astronomical Society | 2 | 9804 | 4902 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 5075 | 2538 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 3488 | 1744 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1377 | 1377 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1025 | 1025 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1496 | 1496 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 270 | 270 |
| Faculty of Navigation | 1 | 650 | 650 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1769 | 1769 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 945 | 945 |
| Utah State University | 1 | 1649 | 1649 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 450 | 450 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the DLR now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
