Humboldt University of Berlin reports 2021 APC expenditures
01 Apr 2022The Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
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 148 articles, total expenditure amounts to 254,269€ and the average fee is 1,718€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 43 | 83669 | 1946 |
| MDPI AG | 34 | 54556 | 1605 |
| Informa UK Limited | 22 | 18219 | 828 |
| Springer Nature | 21 | 57850 | 2755 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 9820 | 1964 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 3981 | 1327 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 3 | 4137 | 1379 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 3128 | 1564 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 3395 | 1698 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 2 | 2200 | 1100 |
| African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development | 1 | 570 | 570 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1273 | 1273 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1374 | 1374 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1825 | 1825 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1987 | 1987 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1776 | 1776 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1172 | 1172 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 877 | 877 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1028 | 1028 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 420 | 420 |
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)
