TU München reports its 2023 APC expenditures
12 Apr 2024The Technische Universität München (TUM) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.
The TUM University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Gregor Reiss.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 521 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,238,764€ and the average fee is 2,378€.
The following table shows the payments the TUM University Library has made to publishers in 2023.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 190 | 497208 | 2617 |
| MDPI AG | 80 | 176596 | 2207 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 63 | 160942 | 2555 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 54 | 135163 | 2503 |
| Elsevier BV | 26 | 60753 | 2337 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 18 | 29532 | 1641 |
| IEEE | 17 | 18743 | 1103 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 30691 | 2046 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 8 | 21783 | 2723 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 9584 | 1917 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 5 | 16487 | 3297 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 6531 | 2177 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 6257 | 2086 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 3531 | 1177 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 8517 | 2839 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 6109 | 2036 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 3765 | 1255 |
| BMJ | 2 | 4525 | 2262 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 4379 | 2190 |
| University of Uludag | 2 | 4522 | 2261 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1513 | 1513 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 4200 | 4200 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 4179 | 4179 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1735 | 1735 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 2526 | 2526 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1501 | 1501 |
| Ax Publications | 1 | 238 | 238 |
| Colorado State University | 1 | 2213 | 2213 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 321 | 321 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2218 | 2218 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4570 | 4570 |
| International Food and Agribusiness Management Association | 1 | 1547 | 1547 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 2380 | 2380 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1672 | 1672 |
| VDI Fachmedien GmbH and Co. KG | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 536 | 536 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TUM now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
