Humboldt University of Berlin reports 2020 APC expenditures

The 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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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