The German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2025 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 246 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 430,916€ and the average fee is 1,752€.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 72 | 115045 | 1598 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 50 | 75779 | 1516 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 42 | 78653 | 1873 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 18 | 33897 | 1883 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | 12 | 28295 | 2358 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 6 | 12616 | 2103 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 5 | 12309 | 2462 |
| EDP Sciences | 5 | 5000 | 1000 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 7161 | 1790 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 8728 | 2182 |
| Institute of Navigation | 3 | 3514 | 1171 |
| Schweizerbart | 3 | 5053 | 1684 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 3184 | 1592 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 4790 | 2395 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 5528 | 2764 |
| AHS International dba Vertical Flight Society | 1 | 1741 | 1741 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1457 | 1457 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1192 | 1192 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 3688 | 3688 |
| ASME International | 1 | 1327 | 1327 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 1906 | 1906 |
| Emerald | 1 | 3304 | 3304 |
| Faculty of Navigation | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2268 | 2268 |
| OAE Publishing Inc. | 1 | 1656 | 1656 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2621 | 2621 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1092 | 1092 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2381 | 2381 |
| Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | 1 | 2920 | 2920 |
| Visualcom Scientific Publications SL | 1 | 454 | 454 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2856 | 2856 |
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)
