The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 4 more institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, introducing one new participant.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 120 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 177 697€ and the average fee is 1 481€.
The data originates from the Université de Lorraine, the Université Lille 2, the Université de Bordeaux and the Université Evry Val-d’Essonne.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 25 | 42896 | 1716 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 22 | 33955 | 1543 |
| MDPI AG | 12 | 14226 | 1186 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 10 | 15049 | 1505 |
| Elsevier BV | 7 | 9381 | 1340 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 4342 | 1085 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 4 | 4929 | 1232 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 3 | 5837 | 1946 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 3371 | 1124 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 830 | 277 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 4028 | 2014 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 1171 | 585 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2945 | 1473 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1281 | 1281 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1897 | 1897 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1676 | 1676 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1337 | 1337 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2464 | 2464 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1399 | 1399 |
| Atlantis Press | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1425 | 1425 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1440 | 1440 |
| David Publishing Company | 1 | 626 | 626 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 1 | 1981 | 1981 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 2045 | 2045 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2741 | 2741 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1415 | 1415 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1680 | 1680 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1404 | 1404 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1821 | 1821 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 987 | 987 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 4500 | 4500 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2123 | 2123 |
| Science and Education Publishing | 1 | 142 | 142 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
