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 64 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 114 576€ and the average fee is 1 790€.
The data originates from the Université Lyon 1, the Université Paris Diderot, the Université Toulouse III and the Université de La Rochelle.
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 | 17 | 32954 | 1938 |
| MDPI AG | 7 | 8240 | 1177 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 10309 | 1473 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 6 | 10318 | 1720 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 14129 | 3532 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 4 | 3099 | 775 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 4396 | 2198 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3816 | 1908 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2775 | 1388 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3559 | 1780 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 4487 | 2244 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3175 | 3175 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2280 | 2280 |
| ESG | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1624 | 1624 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2686 | 2686 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1646 | 1646 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 2600 | 2600 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 485 | 485 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
