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 three new participants.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 104 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 179 618€ and the average fee is 1 727€.
The data originates from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), MINES ParisTech, the Université de la Réunion and the Université de Montpellier. Additionally, 2017 data for INSERM was replaced completelly, introducing about 60 more articles (not included into this report).
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 24 | 43297 | 1804 |
| Springer Nature | 24 | 44968 | 1874 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 16467 | 1647 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 14623 | 2089 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 5 | 10014 | 2003 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 8826 | 2207 |
| MDPI AG | 4 | 3702 | 925 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4335 | 1445 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 5236 | 1745 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 5070 | 1690 |
| Geological Society of London | 2 | 2415 | 1208 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3672 | 1836 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1705 | 1705 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| David Publishing Company | 1 | 499 | 499 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2238 | 2238 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 1350 | 1350 |
| JSciMed Central | 1 | 1736 | 1736 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1303 | 1303 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2830 | 2830 |
| Royal College of General Practitioners | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Scientific Advances Publishers | 1 | 581 | 581 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 751 | 751 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
