Humboldt University of Berlin joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) as new contributing institution!

The University Library of HU Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Institutional contact for the data set is the HU Library Open Access Team.

About the data set

The initial data set contributed by the HU Berlin contains information on publication fees paid in 2018. Please note that the data originates not only from the institutional DFG Publication Fund, but also from other OA funds at HU Berlin.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 46 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 54 372€ and the average fee is 1 182€.

The following table and plots provide an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Informa UK Limited 21 13878 661
Frontiers Media SA 10 20092 2009
Springer Nature 6 9289 1548
MDPI AG 2 2017 1009
American Society for Microbiology 1 1991 1991
Copernicus GmbH 1 1881 1881
Elsevier BV 1 2051 2051
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 400 400
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1229 1229
Schweizerbart 1 1092 1092
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 452 452

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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