TU München reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

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

Contact person is Gregor Reiss.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 350 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 570,021€ and the average fee is 1,629€.

The following table shows the payments the TUM University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 112 149632 1336
Springer Nature 93 181548 1952
Frontiers Media SA 55 98755 1796
Wiley-Blackwell 24 48238 2010
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 18 30468 1693
Copernicus GmbH 10 13129 1313
Elsevier BV 10 12723 1272
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 4000 1333
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5275 1758
IOP Publishing 3 4311 1437
AME Publishing Company 2 3017 1508
American Physical Society (APS) 2 2467 1233
Informa UK Limited 2 2362 1181
American Society for Microbiology 1 1250 1250
Bern Open Publishing 1 568 568
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1995 1995
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1 627 627
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 322 322
MYU K.K. 1 1230 1230
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1360 1360
PAGEPress Publications 1 696 696
PeerJ 1 1224 1224
SAGE Publications 1 952 952
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) 1 2002 2002
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 1276 1276
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

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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Heidelberg University reports additional 2018 to 2020 APC expenditures

Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution contains more APC data for the 2020 period and some additional records for 2018 and 2019.

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

Contact person is Dr. Jochen Apel.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 39 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 70,178€ and the average fee is 1,799€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 22 39995 1818
Springer Nature 17 30182 1775

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Humboldt University of Berlin reports 2020 APC expenditures

The Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period and also cost data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.

The University Library of HU Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Institutional contact for the data set is the HU Library Open Access Team.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 120 articles, total expenditure amounts to 159,366€ and the average fee is 1,328€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Informa UK Limited 39 29440 755
Frontiers Media SA 23 42903 1865
MDPI AG 19 27819 1464
Wiley-Blackwell 9 16416 1824
Springer Nature 5 9366 1873
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 6715 1679
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Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 3785 1893
Elsevier BV 2 3627 1814
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3293 1647
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1396 1396
Beltz Juventa 1 480 480
Copernicus GmbH 1 1429 1429
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1932 1932
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 949 949
IOP Publishing 1 1891 1891
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1670 1670
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 536 536
PeerJ 1 1309 1309
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1152 1152
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 857 857
University of Zurich 1 900 900

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HU Berlin 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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