University of Bern reports partial 2024 APC expenditures


The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the second 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 second half of 2024. Total expenditure amounts to 168,797€ and the average fee is 2,110€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 22 55735 2533
Frontiers Media SA 19 43496 2289
MDPI AG 11 23416 2129
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 18014 2252
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 4309 1436
Wiley-Blackwell 3 3891 1297
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 5332 2666
Quintessenz 2 2039 1019
SAGE Publications 2 2740 1370
American Dairy Science Association 1 1342 1342
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1998 1998
Council for British Archaeology 1 2644 2644
Elsevier BV 1 778 778
Open Source Publications 1 526 526
Pensoft Publishers 1 1040 1040
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 968 968
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 531 531

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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