The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 4 of them reporting for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 211 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 390,755€ and the average fee is 1,852€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université Evry Val-d’Essonne
- Université de Rennes 1
- Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (new)
- Institut Laue-Langevin (new)
- ISARA (new)
- ANSM (new)
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 | 36 | 72320 | 2009 |
| MDPI AG | 29 | 33284 | 1148 |
| Elsevier BV | 22 | 53911 | 2450 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 19485 | 1299 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 22213 | 1709 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 11 | 24631 | 2239 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 11 | 35470 | 3225 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 9 | 13813 | 1535 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 7 | 7036 | 1005 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 16966 | 2828 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 6 | 9591 | 1598 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 4 | 11245 | 2811 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 4 | 2003 | 501 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 4 | 7342 | 1835 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 7707 | 2569 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 6020 | 2007 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 6881 | 3441 |
| BMJ | 2 | 4202 | 2101 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 2674 | 1337 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 5109 | 2554 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2 | 5926 | 2963 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2200 | 1100 |
| Informa UK Limited | 2 | 2890 | 1445 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1305 | 1305 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 1 | 950 | 950 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 890 | 890 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2985 | 2985 |
| S. Hirzel Verlag | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 1307 | 1307 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2924 | 2924 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 1 | 494 | 494 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| Sci Forschen, Inc. | 1 | 816 | 816 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 816 | 816 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
