29 Mar 2023
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2021 period.
The University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Alexander Kobusch.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 18 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 26 239€ and the average fee is 1 458€. The data also contained one BPC record which is not listed here.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
13 |
21279 |
1637 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1234 |
1234 |
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
1 |
295 |
295 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
631 |
631 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
1025 |
1025 |
Springer Nature |
1 |
1775 |
1775 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

29 Mar 2023
The Technische Universität Dortmund has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 and 2021 period.
Dortmund University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Kathrin Höhner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 96 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 166 430€ and the average fee is 1 734€.
The following table shows the payments Dortmund University Library has made to publishers in 2020 and 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
39 |
58902 |
1510 |
Springer Nature |
23 |
52148 |
2267 |
Frontiers Media SA |
10 |
16170 |
1617 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
6 |
13268 |
2211 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
4061 |
1354 |
Optica Publishing Group |
3 |
4996 |
1665 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
3747 |
1874 |
Cogitatio |
2 |
3092 |
1546 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2846 |
1423 |
Brill |
1 |
464 |
464 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1914 |
1914 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1584 |
1584 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
981 |
981 |
sub\urban e.V. |
1 |
400 |
400 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1856 |
1856 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Dortmund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

27 Mar 2023
We welcome the Technische Hochschule Brandenburg as new contributing institution!
The TH Brandenburg Library manages services related to Open Access.
An initial data set on APC expenditures for 2022 has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Cliff Buschhart.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 2 articles published in 2022, total expenditure amounts to 3,182€ and the average fee is 1,591€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
2 |
3182 |
1591 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
