University of Stuttgart reports its 2020 APC expenditures


The University of Stuttgart has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 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 96 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 141,359€ and the average fee is 1,472€.

The following table shows the payments the University Library of Stuttgart has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 53 71411 1347
Frontiers Media SA 13 23056 1774
Optical Society of America (OSA) 8 12733 1592
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 5 4975 995
Wiley-Blackwell 4 8187 2047
Elsevier BV 2 2268 1134
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3407 1703
Springer Nature 2 3737 1868
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1875 1875
American Society for Microbiology 1 1897 1897
EDP Sciences 1 720 720
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1632 1632
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1932 1932
SAGE Publications 1 1674 1674
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1856 1856

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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