The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2022 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
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 159 articles, total expenditure amounts to 277 957€ and the average fee is 1 748€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 61 | 107692 | 1765 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 50 | 101567 | 2031 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 18529 | 2059 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 8 | 10449 | 1306 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 5379 | 1345 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft | 4 | 4522 | 1130 |
| University of Zurich | 4 | 5236 | 1309 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 3 | 3835 | 1278 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 5991 | 1997 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1904 | 952 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2564 | 1282 |
| GeoScienceWorld | 1 | 1105 | 1105 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 577 | 577 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1975 | 1975 |
| Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Verlag | 1 | 774 | 774 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1860 | 1860 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 657 | 657 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1157 | 1157 |
| ScopeMed | 1 | 398 | 398 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 1785 | 1785 |
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)
