Charité joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin as new contributing institution!

The Charité Medical Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Steffi Grimm.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the Charité Medical Library covers publication fees for 232 articles published in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 381 125€ and the average fee is 1 643€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 72 132198 1836
Springer Nature 50 81537 1631
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 36 54761 1521
MDPI AG 17 25091 1476
BMJ 10 16169 1617
Wiley-Blackwell 7 12009 1716
Elsevier BV 6 10236 1706
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 6 8092 1349
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 4 7468 1867
Ivyspring International Publisher 3 3296 1099
SAGE Publications 3 2816 939
American Society for Microbiology 2 3421 1711
Impact Journals, LLC 2 4083 2042
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3312 1656
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3427 1714
S. Karger AG 2 2812 1406
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1929 1929
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1916 1916
Informa UK Limited 1 1919 1919
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1002 1002
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1703 1703
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 505 505
Pan African Medical Journal 1 184 184
PeerJ 1 1237 1237

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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