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 for the data set is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
The new data covers APCs for 146 articles (74 unrelated to any agreement, 72 published under an agreement like DEAL). Total APC expenditure amounts to 368,919€ and the average fee is 2,527€.
The following table provides an overview.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 44 | 160574 | 3649 |
| Elsevier BV | 22 | 47050 | 2139 |
| MDPI AG | 21 | 42745 | 2035 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 40024 | 2668 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 11 | 17493 | 1590 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 18949 | 2707 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 4 | 6163 | 1541 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 7639 | 1910 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 4 | 4108 | 1027 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 3873 | 1937 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 4402 | 2201 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 4152 | 2076 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2346 | 2346 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 825 | 825 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1740 | 1740 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 2143 | 2143 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1028 | 1028 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 536 | 536 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Freie Universität Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
