We welcome the University of Bern as new contributing institution!
The University launched an institutional Open Access Publishing Fund in April 2020 and has now kindly provided data on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Nives Korrodi.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 93 articles published in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 163,823€ and the average fee is 1,762€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 24 | 49324 | 2055 |
| MDPI AG | 23 | 32067 | 1394 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 22 | 49155 | 2234 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 9899 | 1414 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 4861 | 1620 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2967 | 1484 |
| Quintessenz | 2 | 1875 | 938 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 4020 | 2010 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1492 | 1492 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 870 | 870 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1389 | 1389 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1399 | 1399 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1388 | 1388 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 841 | 841 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 845 | 845 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1428 | 1428 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
