TU Berlin reports its 2022 APC expenditures and TA data

The Technische Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period and articles published under the TIB transformative agreement with RSC in 2022.

The TU Berlin University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact Person is Michaela Voigt.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 212 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 389 878€ and the average fee is 1 839€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under transformative agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

The following table shows the APC payments the TU Berlin has made to publishers in 2022.

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

CSC updates collected APC data for several Finnish institutions

The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC data for Finnish HEIs.

The CSC is a non-profit government enterprise which provides IT support and services to Finnish academia and research institutes. It operates VIRTA, a centralized service tasked with collecting publication data from HEIs. VIRTA may also optionally collect cost data on OA publishing (APCs and BPCs), this data is made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.

Contact Person for the CSC is Ville Hämäläinen.

Cost data

The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 1,869 articles published between 2017 and 2023, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 3,232,485€ and the average fee is 1,730€.

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

IAB reports its 2022 APC expenditures

The IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period.

The IAB is a research institute and special office of the German Federal Employment Agency.

Contact person for the IAB data is Ralf-Bernhard Riebau.

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 33 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 82,850€ and the average fee is 2,511€.

The following table shows the payments the IAB has made to publishers in 2022.

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)