The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 19 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 10 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 810 articles published mostly between 2018 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1,413,330€ and the average fee is 1,745€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- AgroParisTech (new)
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
- Université de Bordeaux
- Université de Bourgogne
- ENGEES (new)
- ENSTA Bretagne (new)
- ESPCI Paris
- Université de Franche-Comté
- Université de Haute-Alsace (new)
- IFREMER (new)
- IFSTTAR
- Université du Havre (new)
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (new)
- Université Paris Nanterre (new)
- Université de Perpignan - Via Domitia (new)
- Sciences Po Paris (new)
- Sorbonne Université
- Université de Toulon
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 | 173 | 359994 | 2081 |
| MDPI AG | 141 | 186650 | 1324 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 108 | 218216 | 2021 |
| Elsevier BV | 95 | 153990 | 1621 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 47 | 65378 | 1391 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 32 | 56296 | 1759 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 19 | 40905 | 2153 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 19 | 35601 | 1874 |
| Informa UK Limited | 14 | 36591 | 2614 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 13 | 23195 | 1784 |
| IEEE | 12 | 14621 | 1218 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 12 | 14158 | 1180 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 7 | 20212 | 2887 |
| AAAS | 6 | 19812 | 3302 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 6 | 7763 | 1294 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 6 | 14815 | 2469 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 6 | 16889 | 2815 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 7158 | 1432 |
| ASTES Journal | 4 | 697 | 174 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 4 | 8743 | 2186 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 4 | 7200 | 1800 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 3718 | 930 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 4 | 8323 | 2081 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 2091 | 697 |
| BMJ | 3 | 6080 | 2027 |
| David Publishing Company | 3 | 1957 | 652 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 3 | 9600 | 3200 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 1950 | 650 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 4636 | 1545 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 7328 | 3664 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 2852 | 1426 |
| Avoxa Mediengruppe Deutscher Apotheker GmbH | 2 | 596 | 298 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 4032 | 2016 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 2544 | 1272 |
| Juniper Publishers | 2 | 1611 | 806 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 2 | 1247 | 623 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 5086 | 2543 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3120 | 1560 |
| University of California Press | 2 | 2119 | 1059 |
| Academic Conferences International Ltd | 1 | 284 | 284 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1958 | 1958 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 495 | 495 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 2175 | 2175 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 245 | 245 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 881 | 881 |
| Antiquity Publications | 1 | 852 | 852 |
| CAIRN | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 2445 | 2445 |
| Center for Promoting Ideas | 1 | 190 | 190 |
| Crimson Publishers | 1 | 394 | 394 |
| DGHT | 1 | 385 | 385 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3960 | 3960 |
| Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 908 | 908 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1487 | 1487 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2180 | 2180 |
| Herald Scholarly Open Access | 1 | 875 | 875 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 742 | 742 |
| Lupine Publishers LLC | 1 | 912 | 912 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2714 | 2714 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 2590 | 2590 |
| RonPub | 1 | 98 | 98 |
| Science Impact, Ltd. | 1 | 2142 | 2142 |
| Science Repository OU | 1 | 427 | 427 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1687 | 1687 |
| Spandidos Publications | 1 | 910 | 910 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 950 | 950 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 460 | 460 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
