The TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences has updated its expenditures, providing data on APCs, BPCs and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature for the 2024 period.
The University Library is in charge of the University’s Publishing Fund.
Contact person is Kerstin Klein.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 26 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 50 847€ and the average fee is 1 956€. 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. BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC data set and are not listed here either.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 7 | 13653 | 1950 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 8039 | 1608 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 10060 | 3353 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 5140 | 2570 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 2 | 5238 | 2619 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 850 | 850 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1780 | 1780 |
| Bristol University Press | 1 | 1885 | 1885 |
| EconJournals | 1 | 638 | 638 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1955 | 1955 |
| Springer Nature | 1 | 1268 | 1268 |
| Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie - Krakow University of Economics | 1 | 341 | 341 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TH Köln now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
