The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for the CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) 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 87 articles published at the CEA in 2015 and 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 164 275€ and the average fee is 1 888€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data set provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 31 | 60328 | 1946 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 13 | 20400 | 1569 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 11 | 21290 | 1935 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 6676 | 1335 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 4 | 7123 | 1781 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 9084 | 2271 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 7372 | 2457 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 4880 | 2440 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2272 | 1136 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1612 | 1612 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 3684 | 3684 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2704 | 2704 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 2960 | 2960 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1704 | 1704 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2574 | 2574 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1076 | 1076 |
| MDPI AG | 1 | 1670 | 1670 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3700 | 3700 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2307 | 2307 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 559 | 559 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
