TU München reports its 2023 APC expenditures

The 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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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