The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France. The latest data delivery contains additional articles for the Université de Bourgogne and an initial data set for the Université Paris Descartes.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 51 articles published in 2015. Total expenditure amounts to 74 524€ and the average fee is 1 461€.
The data originates from the Université de Bourgogne (Update) and the Université Paris Descartes (Initial data).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 14 | 17460 | 1247 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 10472 | 1309 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 11276 | 1611 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 5 | 8150 | 1630 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 6300 | 2100 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 2755 | 918 |
| MDPI AG | 2 | 1676 | 838 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 890 | 890 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2850 | 2850 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 2033 | 2033 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2641 | 2641 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2530 | 2530 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 252 | 252 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1569 | 1569 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 1 | 2385 | 2385 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1284 | 1284 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
