The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures for the Aix-Marseille Université 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 310 articles published at Aix-Marseille Université in 2012 - 2014, 2016 and 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 453 068€ and the average fee is 1 462€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data set provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 79 | 96812 | 1225 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 51 | 71055 | 1393 |
| Springer Nature | 31 | 56426 | 1820 |
| Elsevier BV | 26 | 40270 | 1549 |
| MDPI AG | 22 | 28177 | 1281 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 22 | 30908 | 1405 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 13 | 19679 | 1514 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 9 | 16514 | 1835 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 14866 | 1858 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 4481 | 896 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 5 | 11884 | 2377 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 3373 | 843 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 4685 | 1171 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 4 | 6704 | 1676 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 6399 | 2133 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3158 | 1579 |
| American Society of Hematology | 2 | 3040 | 1520 |
| BMJ | 2 | 4300 | 2150 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3401 | 1700 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 4102 | 2051 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2494 | 2494 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 114 | 114 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 2422 | 2422 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3315 | 3315 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 415 | 415 |
| FASEB | 1 | 2738 | 2738 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1418 | 1418 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1105 | 1105 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 785 | 785 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3150 | 3150 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1274 | 1274 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 1 | 465 | 465 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1950 | 1950 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
