TH Wildau reports its 2025 APC expenditures


The Technische Hochschule Wildau has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2025 period.

Wildau University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2020.

Contact Person is Friederike Borchert.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 6 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 12 705€ and the average fee is 2 117€.

The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs (including taxes and discounts):

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 1 2894 2894
IEEE 1 2333 2333
MDPI AG 1 2024 2024
Optica Publishing Group 1 1898 1898
SAGE Publications 1 1372 1372
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2183 2183

Additional Costs

The new data also contained additional cost information for 2 publications. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for these articles:

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Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Wildau 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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