The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the first half of 2024.
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 80 articles published in the first half of 2024. Total expenditure amounts to 175,699€ and the average fee is 2,196€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 25 | 60475 | 2419 |
| MDPI AG | 16 | 34407 | 2150 |
| Springer Nature | 15 | 37124 | 2475 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6682 | 1671 |
| BMJ | 3 | 8357 | 2786 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 5754 | 1918 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 5063 | 1688 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1490 | 745 |
| University of California Press | 2 | 2948 | 1474 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2455 | 2455 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2383 | 2383 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2055 | 2055 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1629 | 1629 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1887 | 1887 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1879 | 1879 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1111 | 1111 |
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)
