Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2023 APC expenditures

The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2023 period.

The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publication Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 148 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 334 452€ and the average fee is 2 260€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 43 84939 1975
Springer Nature 39 118784 3046
Frontiers Media SA 15 32702 2180
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 18719 2080
Wiley-Blackwell 8 21249 2656
AIP Publishing 6 10024 1671
Copernicus GmbH 6 10167 1695
Elsevier BV 4 7211 1803
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 5160 1720
American Dairy Science Association 2 3400 1700
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4561 2280
Pensoft Publishers 2 2353 1177
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2 1071 536
American Society for Microbiology 1 2327 2327
American Vacuum Society 1 1666 1666
EMBO 1 4570 4570
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 1942 1942
MIT Press 1 1744 1744
SAGE Publications 1 731 731
Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft 1 1130 1130

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the FU Berlin 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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TU Wien reports its 2021-2023 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität Wien has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution by TU Wien’s University Library provides data for the 2021-2023 period.

Contact person is Magdalena Andrae.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 335 articles, total expenditure amounts to 638,725€ and the average fee is 1,907€.

The following table shows the payments the University Library of TU Wien has made to publishers from 2021 to 2023 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 206 381515 1852
Frontiers Media SA 39 96796 2482
Springer Nature 25 49612 1984
Informa UK Limited 11 12793 1163
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 7 12067 1724
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 7 5914 845
Copernicus GmbH 6 13240 2207
Elsevier BV 5 6394 1279
American Chemical Society (ACS) 4 5842 1460
Optica Publishing Group 4 10912 2728
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 4089 1363
Wiley-Blackwell 3 9918 3306
Cogitatio 2 2280 1140
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 5254 2627
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3937 1968
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1417 708
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4276 4276
EDP Sciences 1 1080 1080
Institute of Navigation 1 1738 1738
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 3600 3600
Medical Journals Sweden AB 1 1920 1920
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2423 2423
PeerJ 1 1709 1709

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for TU Wien 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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The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 7 institutions

The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

APC expenditures for 7 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the National Library is Johan Fröberg.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 434 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 805 731€ and the average fee is 1 857€. The contribution also contained BPC data for one OA monograph which is not listed here.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Dalarna University
  • University of Gävle
  • Linköping University
  • Mälardalen University
  • Malmö University
  • Örebro University

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 115 203704 1771
Frontiers Media SA 78 173339 2222
IEEE 72 88677 1232
JMIR Publications Inc. 17 41908 2465
Optica Publishing Group 14 27864 1990
SAGE Publications 14 19931 1424
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 6 14754 2459
Informa UK Limited 6 16124 2687
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 6 8181 1364
AAAS 5 19626 3925
ASME International 5 14279 2856
Cogitatio 5 4869 974
Inderscience Publishers 5 10074 2015
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 8714 1743
AIP Publishing 4 7857 1964
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 4 1230 308
Elsevier BV 4 7184 1796
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 11547 2887
American Society for Microbiology 3 9592 3197
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 3 13753 4584
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 3 5399 1800
American Physiological Society 2 6316 3158
American Speech Language Hearing Association 2 3627 1813
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 5637 2818
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 4553 2276
Human Kinetics 2 4898 2449
Thomas Telford Ltd. 2 3863 1932
Wiley-Blackwell 2 5197 2599
Academic Conferences and Publishing International - ACPIL 1 347 347
Aditum Publishing LLC 1 997 997
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 2152 2152
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 1 2216 2216
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 1765 1765
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 4893 4893
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1800 1800
Audio Engineering Society 1 1027 1027
Common Ground Research Networks 1 530 530
Copernicus GmbH 1 885 885
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 1 341 341
E.U. European Publishing 1 1781 1781
Edizioni Minerva Medica 1 1525 1525
Emerald 1 2767 2767
European Society of Medicine 1 3506 3506
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 394 394
Future Medicine Ltd 1 3813 3813
Intellect 1 1639 1639
Iron and Steel Institute of Japan 1 675 675
IWA Publishing 1 2049 2049
Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) 1 2669 2669
Korean Diabetes Association 1 449 449
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 3234 3234
Microbiology Society 1 2444 2444
MIT Press - Journals 1 1415 1415
Modestum Limited 1 892 892
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library 1 692 692
Pen Academic Publishing 1 193 193
Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery 1 274 274
Quintessenz 1 1269 1269
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1541 1541
SAE International 1 730 730
Scholink Co, Ltd. 1 303 303
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 1 2900 2900
Society for Neuroscience 1 2048 2048
Society for Sociological Science 1 393 393
Springer Publishing Company 1 908 908
Stockholm University Press 1 634 634
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 1 808 808
University of California Press 1 296 296
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1713 1713
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd 1 2126 2126

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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