University of Bern reports partial 2022 APC expenditures


The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the first half of 2022.

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 83 articles published in the first half of 2022. Total expenditure amounts to 155,933€ and the average fee is 1,879€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 35 67291 1923
MDPI AG 19 35488 1868
Springer Nature 6 12290 2048
BMJ 5 9352 1870
Wiley-Blackwell 4 7821 1955
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 5100 1700
Quintessenz 2 2659 1330
American Astronomical Society 1 2210 2210
American Dairy Science Association 1 966 966
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 2152 2152
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2439 2439
Informa UK Limited 1 1166 1166
IOP Publishing 1 2084 2084
Microbiology Society 1 1944 1944
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2040 2040
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 931 931

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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