The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.
When reporting their publication costs, the Freie Universität Berlin had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 57 articles, total expenditure amounts to 93 609€ and the average fee is 1 642€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Informa UK Limited | 27 | 26650 | 987 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 20860 | 2086 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 19757 | 2470 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 12563 | 2513 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 5864 | 1955 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4201 | 2100 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 1 | 1263 | 1263 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2451 | 2451 |
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)
