The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2020 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 119 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 191 184€ and the average fee is 1 607€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 46 | 75272 | 1636 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 33 | 62742 | 1901 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 14594 | 1824 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 6495 | 1299 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 3613 | 903 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 7256 | 1814 |
| Cogitatio | 3 | 2570 | 857 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4391 | 1464 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft | 3 | 2320 | 774 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1428 | 714 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1964 | 1964 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 824 | 824 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1129 | 1129 |
| Bern Open Publishing | 1 | 1232 | 1232 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1850 | 1850 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| University of Zurich | 1 | 1071 | 1071 |
| VIBGYOR ePress | 1 | 1598 | 1598 |
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)
