Humboldt University of Berlin reports 2020 APC expenditures
01 Apr 2021The Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period and also cost data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.
The University Library of HU Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Institutional contact for the data set is the HU Library Open Access Team.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 120 articles, total expenditure amounts to 159,366€ and the average fee is 1,328€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Informa UK Limited | 39 | 29440 | 755 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 23 | 42903 | 1865 |
| MDPI AG | 19 | 27819 | 1464 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 9 | 16416 | 1824 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 9366 | 1873 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 6715 | 1679 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 3 | 1500 | 500 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 3785 | 1893 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 3627 | 1814 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3293 | 1647 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1396 | 1396 |
| Beltz Juventa | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1429 | 1429 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1932 | 1932 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 949 | 949 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1891 | 1891 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1670 | 1670 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1 | 536 | 536 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1309 | 1309 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1152 | 1152 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 857 | 857 |
| University of Zurich | 1 | 900 | 900 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the HU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
