The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the 2023 period.
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 158 articles published in 2023. Total expenditure amounts to 339,658€ and the average fee is 2,150€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 43 | 81519 | 1896 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 42 | 104195 | 2481 |
| Springer Nature | 27 | 64808 | 2400 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 20083 | 2008 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 8 | 16669 | 2084 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 13434 | 1919 |
| BMJ | 6 | 13988 | 2331 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 2401 | 1201 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 4087 | 2044 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 4277 | 2138 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1427 | 713 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1663 | 1663 |
| German Medical Science | 1 | 890 | 890 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 865 | 865 |
| International Global Health Society | 1 | 2842 | 2842 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2412 | 2412 |
| MRE Press | 1 | 1324 | 1324 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2771 | 2771 |
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)
