The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2018 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 data set covers publication fees for 117 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 192 418€ and the average fee is 1 645€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 35 | 69093 | 1974 |
| Springer Nature | 19 | 28203 | 1484 |
| MDPI AG | 18 | 22927 | 1274 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 17 | 27244 | 1603 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 9901 | 1650 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 8043 | 1609 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 6724 | 1681 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 5235 | 1745 |
| ALTEX Edition | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 759 | 759 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1925 | 1925 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1917 | 1917 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1830 | 1830 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 658 | 658 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| The Korean Society of Veterinary Science (KAMJE) | 1 | 1630 | 1630 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1630 | 1630 |
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)
