TU Braunschweig reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität Braunschweig has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period. The report also covered cost data on hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley in 2019.

Braunschweig University Library 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 Carsten Elsner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 117 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 169,756€ and the average fee is 1,451€.

The following table shows the payments Braunschweig University Library has made to publishers in 2020. 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
MDPI AG 63 84268 1338
Copernicus GmbH 12 18852 1571
Frontiers Media SA 9 14940 1660
Springer Nature 6 11919 1987
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5285 1762
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 5180 1727
Wiley-Blackwell 3 3975 1325
Cogitatio 2 1714 857
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 759 380
Portland Press Ltd. 2 2686 1343
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1253 1253
BioScientifica 1 1846 1846
Elsevier BV 1 512 512
EMBO 1 3573 3573
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1964 1964
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1154 1154
Informa UK Limited 1 2001 2001
IOP Publishing 1 1428 1428
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1936 1936
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1865 1865
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1933 1933
PAGEPress Publications 1 714 714

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Braunschweig 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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