TU Darmstadt reports its 2022 expenditures
14 Jul 2023The Technische Universität Darmstadt has updated its expenditures, providing data on APCs and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature for the 2022 period.
The University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact Person is Karen Schiele.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 130 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 216 692€ and the average fee is 1 667€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
The following table shows the payments the ULB has made to publishers in 2022 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 75 | 129265 | 1724 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 20 | 39323 | 1966 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 21184 | 1412 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6119 | 1530 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 4855 | 1618 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 1892 | 946 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3365 | 1682 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 2540 | 1270 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2051 | 1025 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1401 | 1401 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1904 | 1904 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 579 | 579 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1142 | 1142 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Darmstadt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
