The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France. The next batch of data has now been made available to OpenAPC, containing articles for 5 more institutions.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 60 articles published in 2015. Total expenditure amounts to 89 710€ and the average fee is 1 495€.
The data originates from the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, the Université de Caen Normandie, the Université de France-Comté, the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) and the Université de Strasbourg.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 17 | 22467 | 1322 |
| Springer Nature | 14 | 27033 | 1931 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 11446 | 1272 |
| MDPI AG | 4 | 5268 | 1317 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 3834 | 1278 |
| Elsevier BV | 2 | 4312 | 2156 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2880 | 1440 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 2 | 1806 | 903 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3307 | 1653 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 2875 | 1438 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2200 | 2200 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1530 | 1530 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
