Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 2017


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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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