The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 26 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 42 894€ and the average fee is 1 650€.
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 | 12 | 22159 | 1847 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 3 | 2973 | 991 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2675 | 1338 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 466 | 466 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1318 | 1318 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1436 | 1436 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1387 | 1387 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 2871 | 2871 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2659 | 2659 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1637 | 1637 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 1338 | 1338 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1975 | 1975 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
