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 2 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 595 articles published between 2018 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1,071,249€ and the average fee is 1,800€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Nantes
- Sorbonne Université (new)
- INSA de Lyon (new)
- Université d’Angers
- Université de Strasbourg
- Université de Lorraine
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 | 117 | 214362 | 1832 |
| MDPI AG | 102 | 142684 | 1399 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 100 | 203899 | 2039 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 43 | 66098 | 1537 |
| Elsevier BV | 40 | 97550 | 2439 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 23 | 55770 | 2425 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 20 | 32626 | 1631 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 19 | 38855 | 2045 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 8 | 24800 | 3100 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 7 | 15719 | 2246 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 7 | 12797 | 1828 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 7 | 7018 | 1003 |
| EDP Sciences | 6 | 1800 | 300 |
| IEEE | 6 | 7721 | 1287 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 6 | 17967 | 2995 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 7365 | 1228 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 8273 | 1379 |
| BMJ | 5 | 10102 | 2020 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 4 | 8302 | 2075 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 8192 | 2048 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 4 | 4430 | 1108 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 4691 | 1564 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 7386 | 2462 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3001 | 1500 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2 | 7993 | 3997 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 4547 | 2273 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 1812 | 906 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 3220 | 1610 |
| European Association of Geochemistry | 2 | 2250 | 1125 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 2 | 6885 | 3442 |
| University of California Press | 2 | 2448 | 1224 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 2 | 600 | 300 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 3799 | 1899 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 2084 | 2084 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 655 | 655 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 274 | 274 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 2730 | 2730 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 2713 | 2713 |
| ASRJETS | 1 | 148 | 148 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 380 | 380 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 1 | 969 | 969 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 3136 | 3136 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 774 | 774 |
| Emerald | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Eurasian Society of Educational Research | 1 | 425 | 425 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 841 | 841 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1600 | 1600 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1727 | 1727 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1750 | 1750 |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2136 | 2136 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2795 | 2795 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 542 | 542 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 978 | 978 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 703 | 703 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1651 | 1651 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 103 | 103 |
| The Oceanography Society | 1 | 407 | 407 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1019 | 1019 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 445 | 445 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
