TU Dortmund reports its 2020 and 2021 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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TH Brandenburg joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 6 institutions

The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact persons for the National Library are Camilla Lindelöw and Johan Fröberg.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 309 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 580 545€ and the average fee is 1 879€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Stockholm University
  • Linköping University
  • Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
  • University of Borås
  • Karlstad University
  • University West

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 98 212169 2165
MDPI AG 93 152347 1638
American Physical Society (APS) 12 29107 2426
Copernicus GmbH 10 19134 1913
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 6 2162 360
IEEE 6 10131 1688
Informa UK Limited 6 12146 2024
James Nicholas Publishers 6 4763 794
SAGE Publications 6 5080 847
BMJ 5 12120 2424
Springer Nature 5 11236 2247
Elsevier BV 4 11240 2810
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 8237 2059
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 4 4182 1046
Stockholm University Press 4 4367 1092
AAAS 3 10743 3581
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 5529 1843
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 4844 1615
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 2609 870
American Speech Language Hearing Association 2 1800 900
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3169 1585
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 2 3531 1766
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 4838 2419
Wiley-Blackwell 2 6311 3156
AIP Publishing 1 2632 2632
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 1 2337 2337
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2575 2575
American Society for Microbiology 1 2961 2961
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1 2073 2073
BioResources 1 1437 1437
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 3010 3010
GeoScienceWorld 1 2072 2072
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2098 2098
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1 1758 1758
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 3849 3849
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 3623 3623
Medknow 1 620 620
Optica Publishing Group 1 1826 1826
Pensoft Publishers 1 479 479
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2378 2378
Project Muse 1 2933 2933
South Florida Publishing LLC 1 86 86

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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