07 Apr 2021
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

07 Apr 2021
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

01 Apr 2021
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 |
sub\urban e.V. |
3 |
1500 |
500 |
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
