Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2023 APC expenditures

The 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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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