Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2023 APC expenditures
26 Feb 2024The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2023 period.
The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publication Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 148 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 334 452€ and the average fee is 2 260€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 43 | 84939 | 1975 |
| Springer Nature | 39 | 118784 | 3046 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 15 | 32702 | 2180 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 18719 | 2080 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 21249 | 2656 |
| AIP Publishing | 6 | 10024 | 1671 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 6 | 10167 | 1695 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 7211 | 1803 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 5160 | 1720 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 2 | 3400 | 1700 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 4561 | 2280 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 2353 | 1177 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2 | 1071 | 536 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2327 | 2327 |
| American Vacuum Society | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4570 | 4570 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 1942 | 1942 |
| MIT Press | 1 | 1744 | 1744 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 731 | 731 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the FU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
