The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 2 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 248 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 448,625€ and the average fee is 1,809€. The data also contained one BPC record which is not listed here.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Université de Franche-Comté
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 78 | 119685 | 1534 |
| Springer Nature | 41 | 93610 | 2283 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 40 | 85212 | 2130 |
| Elsevier BV | 25 | 40702 | 1628 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 23388 | 1799 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 7 | 16699 | 2386 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 6 | 6075 | 1012 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 5 | 7326 | 1465 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 9223 | 1845 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 9499 | 2375 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 5580 | 1860 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 3250 | 1625 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 2743 | 1371 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 987 | 987 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3409 | 3409 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 2731 | 2731 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 681 | 681 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 588 | 588 |
| IEEE | 1 | 720 | 720 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 3239 | 3239 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 1721 | 1721 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1819 | 1819 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 48 | 48 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1388 | 1388 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1430 | 1430 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1089 | 1089 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 4577 | 4577 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 528 | 528 |
| The Electromagnetics Academy | 1 | 329 | 329 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 350 | 350 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
