University of Stuttgart reports its 2021 and 2022 APC expenditures


The University of Stuttgart has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides more data for the 2021 period and data for the 2022 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 Publication Funding Programme.

Contact Person is Stefan Drößler.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 179 articles, total expenditure amounts to 373,435€ and the average fee is 2,086€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 78 135248 1734
Springer Nature 31 91897 2964
Frontiers Media SA 20 45623 2281
Optica Publishing Group 14 28021 2002
Wiley-Blackwell 8 20670 2584
Copernicus GmbH 5 7765 1553
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 5 10189 2038
Elsevier BV 4 8140 2035
American Physical Society (APS) 2 7775 3887
EDP Sciences 2 1142 571
IMR Press 2 2722 1361
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3404 1702
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 5135 2568
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1308 1308
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2761 2761
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1047 1047
Wichmann Verlag 1 588 588

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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