TU München reports its 2024 expenditures


The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its expenditures, providing data on APCs and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley, Springer Nature and Elsevier for the 2024 period.

The TUM University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Gregor Reiss.

Cost Data

The new data covers publication fees for 202 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 252,310€ and the average fee is 1,249€. Please note that articles published under the transformative 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 of the reported APCs:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 135 118124 875
Informa UK Limited 20 35605 1780
Oxford University Press (OUP) 19 52270 2751
SAGE Publications 10 14466 1447
Cogitatio 6 4522 754
Frontiers Media SA 6 16834 2806
AIP Publishing 2 3294 1647
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3982 1991
BMJ 1 1517 1517
MDPI AG 1 1696 1696

Overview

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