University of Stuttgart reports its 2018 APC expenditures


The University of Stuttgart has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

The University Library of Stuttgart (ULS) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Please note that this contribution contains additional articles supported by other funds at University of Stuttgart.

Contact Person is Stefan Drößler.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 62 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 88 208€ and the average fee is 1 423€.

The following table shows the payments the University Library of Stuttgart has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 16 15249 953
Optical Society of America (OSA) 10 16173 1617
Frontiers Media SA 6 11507 1918
Springer Nature 6 8588 1431
Copernicus GmbH 4 6155 1539
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 4050 1350
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 2 847 424
American Physical Society (APS) 2 4602 2301
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 2893 1447
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3532 1766
AIP Publishing 1 1177 1177
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2675 2675
American Society for Microbiology 1 2423 2423
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 2092 2092
Elsevier BV 1 1177 1177
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1704 1704
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 608 608
Soil Science Society of America 1 2391 2391
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 363 363

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Stuttgart 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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