The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing 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 APC expenditures for 2016 now include 69 articles, amounting to 95 354€ and an average fee of 1 382€.
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 | 15 | 25245 | 1683 |
| Springer Nature | 12 | 19389 | 1616 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 16100 | 1464 |
| MDPI AG | 4 | 5949 | 1487 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 6156 | 1539 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 5525 | 1842 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 3 | 1752 | 584 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 2 | 3237 | 1618 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 3392 | 1696 |
| 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 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 322 | 322 |
| 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 contributions 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)
