The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2017 period.
The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publication Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 107 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 158 313€ and the average fee is 1 480€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 30 | 49453 | 1648 |
| Springer Nature | 20 | 32453 | 1623 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 17 | 25567 | 1504 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 8281 | 1380 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 7566 | 1513 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 3176 | 794 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4348 | 1449 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 4998 | 1666 |
| BMJ | 2 | 3662 | 1831 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 2930 | 1465 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 2097 | 1049 |
| Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental | 1 | 297 | 297 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 643 | 643 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1697 | 1697 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1664 | 1664 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1856 | 1856 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1979 | 1979 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1983 | 1983 |
| Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) | 1 | 613 | 613 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1451 | 1451 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 674 | 674 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 307 | 307 |
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)
