TU Braunschweig 2022 APC data integrated

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Technische Universität Braunschweig had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.

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 50 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 121,937€ and the average fee is 2,439€.

The following table shows the payments Braunschweig University Library has made to publishers in 2022.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 20 41677 2084
Frontiers Media SA 17 47289 2782
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 5660 2830
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 4000 2000
American Astronomical Society 1 2397 2397
Copernicus GmbH 1 2103 2103
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2000 2000
Elsevier BV 1 2000 2000
Informa UK Limited 1 3034 3034
Magnolia Press 1 4820 4820
Optica Publishing Group 1 2000 2000
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 2110 2110
Springer Nature 1 2846 2846

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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