The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing all remaining data for the 2016 period.
The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s central publication fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
FU Berlin’s final APC expenditures for 2016 now include 82 articles, amounting to 114 375€ and an average fee of 1 395€.
The following table shows the payments the library has made to publishers in 2016:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 33037 | 1739 |
| Springer Nature | 14 | 22448 | 1603 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 12 | 17794 | 1483 |
| MDPI AG | 5 | 7617 | 1523 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 4 | 2085 | 521 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6156 | 1539 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4677 | 1559 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 5525 | 1842 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 2 | 3237 | 1618 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 2 | 600 | 300 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 2 | 1717 | 858 |
| Schweizerbart | 2 | 2541 | 1270 |
| Botanical Society of America | 1 | 329 | 329 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 734 | 734 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 322 | 322 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1504 | 1504 |
| National Library of Serbia | 1 | 150 | 150 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 174 | 174 |
| ScienceOpen | 1 | 849 | 849 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 500 | 500 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the FU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
