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 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
Institutional contact for the data set is the HU Library Open Access Team.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 163 articles, total expenditure amounts to 288,905€ and the average fee is 1,772€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 33 | 56677 | 1717 |
| Informa UK Limited | 31 | 30485 | 983 |
| Springer Nature | 29 | 70371 | 2427 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 20 | 35181 | 1759 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 23729 | 2157 |
| Elsevier BV | 10 | 20629 | 2063 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 4662 | 932 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 4 | 8401 | 2100 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 9481 | 3160 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 4667 | 2334 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 6987 | 3493 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 4010 | 2005 |
| Academy of Science of South Africa | 1 | 700 | 700 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1339 | 1339 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1565 | 1565 |
| International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) | 1 | 1160 | 1160 |
| MIT Press | 1 | 1806 | 1806 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1304 | 1304 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH | 1 | 298 | 298 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1556 | 1556 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1951 | 1951 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 993 | 993 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 952 | 952 |
Additional Costs
The new data also contained additional cost information for 1 publication. The following plot shows the distribution between APCs and additional costs for this article:
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
