University of Stuttgart reports its 2021 APC expenditures


The University of Stuttgart has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 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 129 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 208,010€ and the average fee is 1,612€.

The following table shows the payments the University Library of Stuttgart has made to publishers in 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 76 126229 1661
Springer Nature 13 21909 1685
Frontiers Media SA 9 14367 1596
Optical Society of America (OSA) 6 10745 1791
Elsevier BV 3 5269 1756
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5152 1717
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 2139 1070
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2 1247 623
IOP Publishing 2 2588 1294
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3682 1841
AIP Publishing 1 1911 1911
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1852 1852
European Optical Society 1 1609 1609
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 986 986
Informa UK Limited 1 1577 1577
Open Library of the Humanities 1 638 638
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 979 979
The Company of Biologists 1 1821 1821
The Royal Society 1 1371 1371
University of Bern 1 870 870

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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