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author:     Christoph Broschinski
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title:      TU Clausthal reports its 2016 and 2017 APC expenditures
date:       2018-02-05 08:00:00
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categories: [general, openAPC]
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The [TU Clausthal](http://www.tu-clausthal.de/Welcome.php.en) has updated its APC expenditures. The latest contribution provides data for the 2016 and 2017 periods.

The [Library of Clausthal University of Technology](http://www.ub.tu-clausthal.de/en/) is in charge of the [University's Open Access Publishing Fund](http://www.ub.tu-clausthal.de/en/angebote-fuer-wissenschaftlerinnen/elektronisches-publizieren/publikationsfonds/), which is supported by the DFG under its [Open-Access Publishing Programme](http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/open_access/).

Contact person is [Silke Frank](mailto:silke.frank@tu-clausthal.de)

## Cost data



The new dataset covers publication fees for 7 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 11 106€ and the average fee is 1 587€.

The following table shows the payments the library of Clausthal University of Technology has made to publishers in 2016 and 2017.


|                                     | Articles| Fees paid in EURO| Mean Fee paid|
|:------------------------------------|--------:|-----------------:|-------------:|
|Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |        2|               921|           461|
|Carl Hanser Verlag                   |        1|              2099|          2099|
|Elsevier BV                          |        1|              1964|          1964|
|MDPI AG                              |        1|              1004|          1004|
|Springer Nature                      |        1|              2618|          2618|
|Wiley-Blackwell                      |        1|              2500|          2500|

## Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Clausthal now looks as follows:

### Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

![plot of chunk tree_clausthal_2018_02_05_full](/figure/tree_clausthal_2018_02_05_full-1.png)

###  Average costs per year (in EURO)

![plot of chunk box_clausthal_2018_02_05_year_full](/figure/box_clausthal_2018_02_05_year_full-1.png)
