Humboldt University of Berlin 2022 data integrated
10 Jan 2024The 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 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) had agreed to share the data with OpenAPC as well. This data has now been transferred and integrated.
The University Library of HU Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Institutional contact for the data set is the HU Library Open Access Team.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 170 articles, total expenditure amounts to 313,755€ and the average fee is 1,846€.
The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 52 | 89495 | 1721 |
| Informa UK Limited | 29 | 24605 | 848 |
| Springer Nature | 27 | 80882 | 2996 |
| MDPI AG | 21 | 31062 | 1479 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 15 | 40669 | 2711 |
| Elsevier BV | 5 | 5760 | 1152 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 8103 | 2026 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 3 | 4776 | 1592 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 10193 | 5096 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 3982 | 1991 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 2 | 1400 | 700 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 3630 | 1815 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1485 | 1485 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2810 | 2810 |
| AOSIS | 1 | 1531 | 1531 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1263 | 1263 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1100 | 1100 |
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)
