TU Darmstadt reports additional 2020 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität Darmstadt has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL contracts in 2020.

The University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Nicole Rosenke.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 22 207€ and the average fee is 1 708€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 7 12983 1855
Wiley-Blackwell 6 9225 1537

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Darmstadt now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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MDC reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has reported its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.

Contact person is Dr.Dorothea Busjahn.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 61 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 162,446€ and the average fee is 2,663€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 16 51005 3188
Springer Nature 14 40142 2867
Frontiers Media SA 6 11759 1960
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 15150 2525
MDPI AG 5 8561 1712
EMBO 2 7780 3890
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3526 1763
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 1 714 714
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 3107 3107
Informa UK Limited 1 1725 1725
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1832 1832
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2530 2530
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2795 2795
PeerJ 1 1011 1011
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 5001 5001
Rockefeller University Press 1 4368 4368
The Royal Society 1 1440 1440

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MDC now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Hochschule Düsseldorf joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Hochschule Düsseldorf (HSD) as new contributing institution!

The HSD Library has collected data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provided an initial data set to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Stefanie Söhnitz.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 6 articles published between 2018 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 11,841€ and the average fee is 1,974€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 3 4798 1599
Elsevier BV 1 1675 1675
Frontiers Media SA 1 2468 2468
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2900 2900

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

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