The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for the Université de Lorraine in 2019 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 53 articles published in 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 77 853€ and the average fee is 1 469€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 21 | 24952 | 1188 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 14358 | 1795 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 6 | 10130 | 1688 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 8180 | 2045 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 2824 | 1412 |
| ZealPress | 2 | 690 | 345 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 796 | 796 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 2232 | 2232 |
| Herald Scholarly Open Access | 1 | 1217 | 1217 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 3011 | 3011 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 2520 | 2520 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1328 | 1328 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 841 | 841 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1993 | 1993 |
| SciDoc Publishers LLC | 1 | 234 | 234 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 2547 | 2547 |
Overview
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
