The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2019 period.
The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publication Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 106 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 149 124€ and the average fee is 1 407€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 35 | 45830 | 1309 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 22 | 35134 | 1597 |
| Springer Nature | 10 | 17424 | 1742 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 12628 | 1804 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 5266 | 1317 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 3332 | 1111 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4552 | 1517 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 3428 | 1143 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 3119 | 1040 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1428 | 714 |
| Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. | 2 | 1666 | 833 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| Bern Open Publishing | 1 | 547 | 547 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1696 | 1696 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1905 | 1905 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 1 | 476 | 476 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1978 | 1978 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1257 | 1257 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1568 | 1568 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
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)
