Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2021 APC and BPC expenditures

09 Feb 2022

The Freie Universität Berlin has updated both its APC and BPC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2021 period.

The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publication Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.

Cost data (articles)

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 117 articles, total expenditure amounts to 194 224€ and the average fee is 1 660€.

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG	54	96097	1780
Frontiers Media SA	29	53436	1843
Cogitatio	6	5141	857
Copernicus GmbH	5	6495	1299
Public Library of Science (PLoS)	4	7718	1929
Informa UK Limited	3	4528	1509
Elsevier BV	2	2380	1190
Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft	2	2476	1238
American Chemical Society (ACS)	1	1243	1243
American Society for Microbiology	1	1919	1919
BMJ	1	1682	1682
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	1	1800	1800
IOP Publishing	1	1490	1490
JMIR Publications Inc.	1	2017	2017
Oekom Publishers GmbH	1	298	298
Oxford University Press (OUP)	1	1999	1999
Pensoft Publishers	1	964	964
sub\urban e.V.	1	833	833
The Korean Society of Phycology	1	846	846
The Korean Society of Veterinary Science (KAMJE)	1	863	863

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)

Cost data (books)

The new BPC data set covers publication fees for 11 books. Total expenditure amounts to 66 425€ and the average fee is 6 039€.

The following tables provides an overview of the reported BPC payments.

	Books	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
transcript Verlag	5	28335	5667
De Gruyter	4	24960	6240
Cambridge University Press	1	6728	6728
Open Book Publishers	1	6402	6402

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall BPC 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)

Lib4RI reports more 2021 APC expenditures

08 Feb 2022

Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides the remaining data for the 2021 period.

Lib4RI provides APC data for four institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).

Contact persons are Jochen Bihn and Sarah Last.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 98 articles published at Empa, Eawag, WSL and PSI in 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 171,837€ and the average fee is 1,753€. The following tables and plots provide more details, please note that some of these articles had been reported already.

Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG	28	39742	1419
Frontiers Media SA	4	8870	2218
IEEE	3	4782	1594
Springer Nature	3	5520	1840
Copernicus GmbH	1	1410	1410
EDP Sciences	1	108	108
Informa UK Limited	1	3367	3367
Optical Society of America (OSA)	1	2052	2052
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)	1	940	940

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA	5	10531	2106
Springer Nature	3	6554	2185
Copernicus GmbH	2	3726	1863
American Geophysical Union (AGU)	1	1415	1415
MDPI AG	1	1494	1494
Wiley-Blackwell	1	1637	1637

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH	4	8514	2128
MDPI AG	3	4942	1647
Cambridge University Press (CUP)	1	2324	2324
Springer Nature	1	2418	2418

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

WSL - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA	12	24588	2049
Copernicus GmbH	6	11403	1901
MDPI AG	5	7297	1459
Wiley-Blackwell	4	8378	2095
Springer Nature	2	3330	1665
American Geophysical Union (AGU)	1	1415	1415
Cambridge University Press (CUP)	1	1653	1653
Canadian Science Publishing	1	1435	1435
IOP Publishing	1	1992	1992

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

IFW reports its 2020 APC expenditures

03 Feb 2022

The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.

Contact Person for the contributed IFW data is Jana Sonnenstuhl.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 30 articles, total expenditure amounts to 68,813€ and the average fee is 2,294€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV	5	12350	2470
MDPI AG	5	7560	1512
Wiley-Blackwell	5	17362	3472
American Physical Society (APS)	4	8244	2061
Springer Nature	3	7674	2558
AIP Publishing	2	4285	2142
American Chemical Society (ACS)	2	6183	3092
Frontiers Media SA	1	1750	1750
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	1	1478	1478
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)	1	845	845
The Royal Society	1	1080	1080

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IFW now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)