The University Library of Free University Berlin has joined openapc.github.io and is now sharing its expenditures for publications in Open Access journals. The library is in charge of the central publication fund at Free University Berlin, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
The dataset covers publication fees for 45 articles, which the fund covered in 2014. Total expenditure amounts to 56 074€ and the average fee is 1 246€.
The following table shows the payments the University Library of Free University Berlin has made to the publishers (including taxes)
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 16332 | 1256 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 9 | 12761 | 1418 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 11678 | 1298 |
| MDPI AG | 3 | 3543 | 1181 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 888 | 444 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1585 | 1585 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1568 | 1568 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1114 | 1114 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 960 | 960 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1401 | 1401 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 668 | 668 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1177 | 1177 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
