The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the 2025 period.
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 172 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 371,288€ and the average fee is 2,159€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 53 | 134492 | 2538 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 44 | 105079 | 2388 |
| MDPI AG | 17 | 32982 | 1940 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 9 | 20569 | 2285 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 20480 | 2276 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 9987 | 1997 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 3824 | 956 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 8126 | 2032 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 4 | 2307 | 577 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 2353 | 784 |
| Quintessenz | 3 | 2049 | 683 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2874 | 1437 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3189 | 1595 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1725 | 1725 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2965 | 2965 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 1 | 2570 | 2570 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1385 | 1385 |
| German Medical Science | 1 | 821 | 821 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1220 | 1220 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2882 | 2882 |
| Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems | 1 | 789 | 789 |
| MIT Press | 1 | 1337 | 1337 |
| Quintessence Publishing | 1 | 1366 | 1366 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1378 | 1378 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1938 | 1938 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2601 | 2601 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bern now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
