Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 6 institutions


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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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