Charité reports its 2020 APC expenditures


The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.

The Charité Medical Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Jenny Delasalle.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 424 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 722,790€ and the average fee is 1,705€.

The following table shows the payments the Charité has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 108 174682 1617
Frontiers Media SA 105 197724 1883
Springer Nature 76 138526 1823
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 44 73825 1678
BMJ 15 23377 1558
JMIR Publications Inc. 13 23406 1800
Elsevier BV 11 13987 1272
Informa UK Limited 8 14076 1760
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 6 6636 1106
SAGE Publications 6 9379 1563
Oxford University Press (OUP) 5 8515 1703
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 3 5671 1890
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 4161 1387
AME Publishing Company 2 2794 1397
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 3846 1923
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1328 664
ALTEX Edition 1 1999 1999
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 790 790
American Society for Microbiology 1 1471 1471
BioScientifica 1 1890 1890
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 696 696
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 892 892
Impact Journals, LLC 1 1999 1999
IMR Press 1 1341 1341
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1920 1920
International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions 1 290 290
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1987 1987
Pan African Medical Journal 1 186 186
S. Karger AG 1 1999 1999
The Company of Biologists 1 1428 1428
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1966 1966

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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