The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 15 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 6 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 1,199 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 2,319,376€ and the average fee is 1,934€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université d’Angers
- Université Technologique de Compiègne
- ENS Lyon (new)
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
- INSA Strasbourg (new)
- INSERM
- Université de Lille
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (new)
- Université de La Réunion
- Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
- Université de Tours
- Université de Bretagne Occidentale (new)
- Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (new)
- Université de Bretagne-Sud (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 | 284 | 628349 | 2212 |
| MDPI AG | 198 | 279100 | 1410 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 168 | 349583 | 2081 |
| Elsevier BV | 114 | 291269 | 2555 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 76 | 123866 | 1630 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 47 | 87983 | 1872 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 29 | 46867 | 1616 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 26 | 63102 | 2427 |
| BMJ | 23 | 47495 | 2065 |
| Informa UK Limited | 20 | 32019 | 1601 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 17 | 24942 | 1467 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 14 | 32278 | 2306 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 12 | 21766 | 1814 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 12 | 14013 | 1168 |
| IEEE | 11 | 16482 | 1498 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 11 | 31326 | 2848 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 10 | 24673 | 2467 |
| EMBO | 7 | 24710 | 3530 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 7 | 9542 | 1363 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 7 | 4722 | 675 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 6 | 9102 | 1517 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 9120 | 1824 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 7664 | 1533 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 12762 | 3191 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 8552 | 2138 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 12440 | 4147 |
| American Meteorological Society | 3 | 4761 | 1587 |
| BioScientifica | 3 | 4134 | 1378 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 3 | 4187 | 1396 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 2 | 1800 | 900 |
| AME Publishing Company | 2 | 2454 | 1227 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 1340 | 670 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4625 | 2312 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 7200 | 3600 |
| ASBMB | 2 | 2836 | 1418 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 1800 | 900 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 2 | 532 | 266 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 2 | 2340 | 1170 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 2 | 2120 | 1060 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 2 | 4300 | 2150 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2 | 1451 | 725 |
| Spandidos Publications | 2 | 3390 | 1695 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 4200 | 2100 |
| The Endocrine Society | 2 | 3847 | 1924 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2089 | 1044 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1627 | 1627 |
| American Diabetes Association | 1 | 673 | 673 |
| American Scientific Publishers | 1 | 484 | 484 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 1 | 2950 | 2950 |
| American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 1 | 1976 | 1976 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 320 | 320 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 757 | 757 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2118 | 2118 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 277 | 277 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 3500 | 3500 |
| ESG | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| European Cells and Materials | 1 | 693 | 693 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 935 | 935 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 272 | 272 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2240 | 2240 |
| Hilaris | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science | 1 | 260 | 260 |
| Institute of Rural Health | 1 | 650 | 650 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2170 | 2170 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2715 | 2715 |
| Medwin Publishers | 1 | 386 | 386 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 780 | 780 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 4200 | 4200 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 809 | 809 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 1014 | 1014 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1095 | 1095 |
| Peertechz Publications Private Limited | 1 | 1314 | 1314 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2115 | 2115 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 672 | 672 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1474 | 1474 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Scholink Co, Ltd. | 1 | 269 | 269 |
| Science Repository OU | 1 | 399 | 399 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 510 | 510 |
| SOMATO PUBLICATIONS | 1 | 551 | 551 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 990 | 990 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
