The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 3 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 46 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 87 672€ and the average fee is 1 906€.
The data originates from the Hospices Civils de Lyon, the Université de Strasbourg, and the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle.
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 | 11 | 24605 | 2237 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 7 | 12884 | 1841 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 9897 | 1414 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 6735 | 2245 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 3957 | 1319 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2932 | 2932 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 3600 | 3600 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1122 | 1122 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1815 | 1815 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 548 | 548 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1950 | 1950 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2523 | 2523 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1857 | 1857 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1333 | 1333 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2202 | 2202 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2480 | 2480 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1030 | 1030 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2200 | 2200 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
