The Freie Universität Berlin has updated both its APC and BPC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2021 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 (articles)
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 117 articles, total expenditure amounts to 194 224€ and the average fee is 1 660€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 54 | 96097 | 1780 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 29 | 53436 | 1843 |
| Cogitatio | 6 | 5141 | 857 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 6495 | 1299 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 7718 | 1929 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4528 | 1509 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 2380 | 1190 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft | 2 | 2476 | 1238 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1243 | 1243 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1919 | 1919 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1682 | 1682 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1490 | 1490 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2017 | 2017 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 964 | 964 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 833 | 833 |
| The Korean Society of Phycology | 1 | 846 | 846 |
| The Korean Society of Veterinary Science (KAMJE) | 1 | 863 | 863 |
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)
Cost data (books)
The new BPC data set covers publication fees for 11 books. Total expenditure amounts to 66 425€ and the average fee is 6 039€.
The following tables provides an overview of the reported BPC payments.
| Books | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| transcript Verlag | 5 | 28335 | 5667 |
| De Gruyter | 4 | 24960 | 6240 |
| Cambridge University Press | 1 | 6728 | 6728 |
| Open Book Publishers | 1 | 6402 | 6402 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall BPC 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)
