University of Stuttgart reports its 2019 APC expenditures


The University of Stuttgart has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 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 51 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 67 423€ and the average fee is 1 322€.

The following table shows the payments the University Library of Stuttgart has made to publishers in 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 23 24007 1044
Frontiers Media SA 7 13716 1959
Springer Nature 6 8663 1444
Optical Society of America (OSA) 4 6481 1620
Elsevier BV 3 3118 1039
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3494 1747
Copernicus GmbH 1 1558 1558
IOP Publishing 1 900 900
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1949 1949
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1723 1723
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 443 443
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1371 1371

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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