The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the first half of 2021.
The University launched an institutional Open Access Publishing Fund in April 2020 and now kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Nives Korrodi.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 86 articles published in the first half 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 132,800€ and the average fee is 1,544€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 51 | 70281 | 1378 |
| Springer Nature | 41 | 81775 | 1994 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 40 | 79646 | 1991 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 21922 | 1461 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 9674 | 1935 |
| BMJ | 3 | 4537 | 1512 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 4861 | 1620 |
| Quintessenz | 3 | 2505 | 835 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2967 | 1484 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1633 | 816 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 2 | 2936 | 1468 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1113 | 1113 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 706 | 706 |
| Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) | 1 | 701 | 701 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 870 | 870 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1389 | 1389 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1399 | 1399 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1238 | 1238 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1917 | 1917 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1388 | 1388 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 841 | 841 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 845 | 845 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1477 | 1477 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bern now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
