Bern University of Applied Sciences reports its 2024 APC and BPC expenditures


Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) has updated its Open Access expenditures, the latest contribution provides on APCs and BPCs for the 2024 period.

The BFH libraries collect data on institutional publication 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 67,099€ and the average fee is 2,485€. 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
Springer Nature 9 25472 2830
MDPI AG 6 12750 2125
Frontiers Media SA 3 7528 2509
Wiley-Blackwell 3 12507 4169
Copernicus GmbH 2 1613 807
BMJ 1 2766 2766
Cantonal and University Library Fribourg 1 1483 1483
E.U. European Publishing 1 1750 1750
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1230 1230

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the BFH 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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