The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures for the CIRAD (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement) have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 46 articles published in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 71 001€ and the average fee is 1 543€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 23 | 40640 | 1767 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 18 | 24289 | 1349 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 17 | 31499 | 1853 |
| Elsevier BV | 10 | 17876 | 1788 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 7678 | 1280 |
| Scientific Societies | 6 | 3398 | 566 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 10855 | 2171 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 10046 | 2009 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 4494 | 1498 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 3 | 2558 | 853 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 3753 | 1876 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 3587 | 1793 |
| BioResources | 1 | 902 | 902 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 2255 | 2255 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for CIRAD now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
