The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
When reporting their publication costs, the Technische Universität Darmstadt had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person for the data set is Karen Schiele.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 193 articles (137 unrelated to any agreement, 56 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 484,473€ and the average fee is 2,510€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 36 | 86270 | 2396 |
| Springer Nature | 24 | 72578 | 3024 |
| Elsevier BV | 21 | 48182 | 2294 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 15 | 31186 | 2079 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 15 | 37058 | 2471 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 14 | 28155 | 2011 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 11 | 37337 | 3394 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 11 | 33881 | 3080 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 16752 | 3350 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 4 | 10579 | 2645 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 9846 | 2461 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 6842 | 1711 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 12107 | 3027 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 11205 | 3735 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 6140 | 2047 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4451 | 2226 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 4100 | 2050 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 2956 | 1478 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4201 | 4201 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1427 | 1427 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 2307 | 2307 |
| BioResources | 1 | 1574 | 1574 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2807 | 2807 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1883 | 1883 |
| International Journal Of Advanced Research | 1 | 136 | 136 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3254 | 3254 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1753 | 1753 |
| Tsinghua University Press | 1 | 2618 | 2618 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 550 | 550 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1089 | 1089 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Technische Universität Darmstadt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
