The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 13 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 9 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 864 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1,410,905€ and the average fee is 1,633€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (new)
- Université de Tours (new)
- Université Savoie Mont Blanc (new)
- Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis (new)
- ONERA (new)
- Université de Nouvelle Calédonie (new)
- Le Mans Université (new)
- Laboratoire national d’essais (new)
- Université de Lille (new)
- CIRAD
- INRIA
- Université de Poitiers
- Université Clermont Auvergne
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 214 | 287386 | 1343 |
| Springer Nature | 160 | 286759 | 1792 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 133 | 265628 | 1997 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 63 | 93473 | 1484 |
| Elsevier BV | 61 | 127238 | 2086 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 35 | 70906 | 2026 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 18 | 32029 | 1779 |
| Informa UK Limited | 16 | 29215 | 1826 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 13 | 20518 | 1578 |
| IEEE | 12 | 17154 | 1430 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 10 | 22601 | 2260 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 8 | 9098 | 1137 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 8 | 12558 | 1570 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 8 | 4579 | 572 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 7 | 20366 | 2909 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 5 | 8338 | 1668 |
| BMJ | 5 | 7943 | 1589 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 8368 | 1674 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 4 | 6010 | 1502 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 3129 | 782 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 4008 | 1002 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 4233 | 1411 |
| EDP Sciences | 3 | 910 | 303 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 6915 | 2305 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 2810 | 937 |
| Academic Journals | 2 | 1011 | 506 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 1972 | 986 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 2 | 1438 | 719 |
| ASBMB | 2 | 4200 | 2100 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 2 | 725 | 362 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 2474 | 1237 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 2 | 1436 | 718 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 1318 | 659 |
| Scientific Societies | 2 | 838 | 419 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 408 | 408 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 156 | 156 |
| American Scientific Publishers | 1 | 473 | 473 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 2633 | 2633 |
| AOSIS | 1 | 503 | 503 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 631 | 631 |
| Austin Publishing Group | 1 | 884 | 884 |
| BioCOre | 1 | 810 | 810 |
| Biomedical Research Network, LLC | 1 | 356 | 356 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 4215 | 4215 |
| European Association of Geochemistry | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1930 | 1930 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 88 | 88 |
| Herald Scholarly Open Access | 1 | 855 | 855 |
| Horizon Research Publishing | 1 | 259 | 259 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2883 | 2883 |
| Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science | 1 | 704 | 704 |
| Japan Oil Chemists’ Society | 1 | 255 | 255 |
| Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Juniper Publishers | 1 | 502 | 502 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 894 | 894 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 975 | 975 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2838 | 2838 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Pan African Medical Journal | 1 | 186 | 186 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 540 | 540 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 2590 | 2590 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1680 | 1680 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 1701 | 1701 |
| S. Hirzel Verlag | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| Science Publications | 1 | 572 | 572 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2571 | 2571 |
| Society of Physical Therapy Science | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Southern Cross Publishing | 1 | 440 | 440 |
| Symbiosis Group | 1 | 1187 | 1187 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1065 | 1065 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 345 | 345 |
| VIBGYOR ePress | 1 | 169 | 169 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
