The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
The latest contribution provides additional APC data for the Université de Lorraine.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 76 articles published at the Université de Lorraine in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016. Total expenditure amounts to 86 395€ and the average fee is 1 137€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 20 | 21890 | 1094 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 11 | 12996 | 1181 |
| MDPI AG | 9 | 8593 | 955 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 9 | 15556 | 1728 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 11577 | 2894 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 2730 | 910 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 1186 | 395 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 764 | 382 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 940 | 470 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 2 | 819 | 410 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1740 | 1740 |
| EMW Publishing | 1 | 573 | 573 |
| ICI Bucharest | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1383 | 1383 |
| Medknow | 1 | 191 | 191 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 1 | 1046 | 1046 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1361 | 1361 |
| Sciencedomain International | 1 | 102 | 102 |
| Springer Nature | 1 | 1398 | 1398 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
