University of Bern reports more 2021 APC expenditures


The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the second 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 67 articles published in the second half 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 124,469€ and the average fee is 1,858€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 18 41064 2281
Springer Nature 18 33665 1870
MDPI AG 14 21239 1517
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 7741 1935
American Society for Microbiology 2 1713 856
Copernicus GmbH 2 5544 2772
Elsevier BV 2 994 497
Wiley-Blackwell 2 5217 2608
BMJ 1 1900 1900
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1296 1296
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2185 2185
Quintessenz 1 1346 1346
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 565 565

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bern now looks as follows:

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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