19 Feb 2021
The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2020 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
The new data set covers publication fees for 119 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 191 184€ and the average fee is 1 607€.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
46 |
75272 |
1636 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
33 |
62742 |
1901 |
| Springer Nature |
8 |
14594 |
1824 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
6495 |
1299 |
| Elsevier BV |
4 |
3613 |
903 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
4 |
7256 |
1814 |
| Cogitatio |
3 |
2570 |
857 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
4391 |
1464 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft |
3 |
2320 |
774 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. |
2 |
1428 |
714 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
1964 |
1964 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
824 |
824 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
1129 |
1129 |
| Bern Open Publishing |
1 |
1232 |
1232 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1850 |
1850 |
| sub\urban e.V. |
1 |
833 |
833 |
| University of Zurich |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
| VIBGYOR ePress |
1 |
1598 |
1598 |
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)
19 Feb 2021
The University of Salzburg has provided BPC expenditures for the 2015 to 2020 period.
The University Library of Salzburg manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.
Contact Person is Linda Ohrtmann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 11 books. Total expenditure amounts to 49 868€ and the average fee is 4 533€.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the BPC payments the University Library of Salzburg has made to book publishers from 2015 to 2020.
| |
Books |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Waxmann Verlag |
6 |
16228 |
2705 |
| epodium |
2 |
4547 |
2274 |
| Reimer Verlag |
1 |
9600 |
9600 |
| Springer International Publishing |
1 |
15000 |
15000 |
| transcript Verlag |
1 |
4493 |
4493 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
18 Feb 2021
We welcome the ETH Zurich as new contributing institution!
The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and has provided an initial data set on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Dr. Rainer Rees-Mertins.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 338 articles published in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 596,793€ and the average fee is 1,766€.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Frontiers Media SA |
88 |
166102 |
1888 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
75 |
130129 |
1735 |
| MDPI AG |
72 |
84199 |
1169 |
| Springer Nature |
33 |
55789 |
1691 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
31 |
56980 |
1838 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
31 |
81044 |
2614 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
3 |
10035 |
3345 |
| EMBO |
2 |
7050 |
3525 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1487 |
1487 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
3545 |
3545 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
433 |
433 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
