Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) has updated its Open Access expenditures, the latest contribution provides on APCs and BPCs for the 2023 period.
The BFH libraries collect data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provide the data sets to OpenAPC.
Institutional contact for the data set is the BFH libraries “eRessourcen” Team.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 27 articles, total expenditure amounts to 54,377€ and the average fee is 2,014€. Please note that the reported OA monographs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC data set.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 9 | 13763 | 1529 |
| Springer Nature | 6 | 14573 | 2429 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 4 | 10351 | 2588 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3834 | 1917 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1260 | 1260 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2420 | 2420 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1690 | 1690 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 2488 | 2488 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the BFH now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
