Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2022 DEAL data

The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing data on Gold OA articles published under the DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature in 2022.

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 APC data set covers publication fees for 69 articles, total expenditure amounts to 168 372€ and the average fee is 2 440€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 51 131698 2582
Wiley-Blackwell 13 26815 2063
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 5 9859 1972

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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