Natural History Museum Berlin joins OpenAPC

The Forschungszentrum Jülich collects publication cost data from German institutions as part of the DFG programme “Open Access Publication Funding”.

When reporting their publication costs, the Natural History Museum Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated, making the institution participate in OpenAPC for the first time.

Contact person for the Natural History Museum Berlin is Stefanie Paß.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the Natural History Museum Berlin covers publication fees for 6 articles, total expenditure amounts to 8,014€ and the average fee is 1,336€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
PeerJ 2 2158 1079
Frontiers Media SA 1 2370 2370
Pensoft Publishers 1 835 835
The Royal Society 1 1020 1020
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1631 1631

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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