The Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period and some articles for 2020.
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.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 98 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 124 354€ and the average fee is 1 269€.
Please note that the data originates not only from the institutional DFG Publication Fund, but also from other OA funds at HU Berlin.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Informa UK Limited | 42 | 30651 | 730 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 25 | 47270 | 1891 |
| MDPI AG | 9 | 14285 | 1587 |
| Springer Nature | 6 | 11180 | 1863 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 6771 | 1693 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 6199 | 2066 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 544 | 272 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 2 | 800 | 400 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1969 | 1969 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1900 | 1900 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 357 | 357 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1239 | 1239 |
| Waxmann | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
