University of Bern reports its 2023 APC expenditures


The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the 2023 period.

The University launched an institutional Open Access Publishing Fund in April 2020 and now kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Nives Korrodi.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 158 articles published in 2023. Total expenditure amounts to 339,658€ and the average fee is 2,150€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 43 81519 1896
Frontiers Media SA 42 104195 2481
Springer Nature 27 64808 2400
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 20083 2008
JMIR Publications Inc. 8 16669 2084
Wiley-Blackwell 7 13434 1919
BMJ 6 13988 2331
American Society for Microbiology 2 2401 1201
Copernicus GmbH 2 4087 2044
SAGE Publications 2 4277 2138
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1427 713
BioScientifica 1 1663 1663
German Medical Science 1 890 890
Informa UK Limited 1 865 865
International Global Health Society 1 2842 2842
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2412 2412
MRE Press 1 1324 1324
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2771 2771

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bern 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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