The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 5 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 4 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 1,067 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,878,552€ and the average fee is 1,761€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (new)
- INRAE (new)
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (new)
- Ecole centrale de Lyon (new)
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
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 | 261 | 491816 | 1884 |
| MDPI AG | 164 | 203124 | 1239 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 146 | 309344 | 2119 |
| Elsevier BV | 112 | 192902 | 1722 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 86 | 134826 | 1568 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 55 | 95849 | 1743 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 53 | 106062 | 2001 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 36 | 100496 | 2792 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 16 | 17591 | 1099 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 12 | 17773 | 1481 |
| Informa UK Limited | 10 | 17424 | 1742 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 10 | 16366 | 1637 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 9 | 9870 | 1097 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 8 | 12417 | 1552 |
| AIP Publishing | 7 | 11300 | 1614 |
| IEEE | 7 | 9557 | 1365 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 6 | 10432 | 1739 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 10884 | 1814 |
| AAAS | 5 | 10158 | 2032 |
| PeerJ | 5 | 4563 | 913 |
| MyJove Corporation | 4 | 12769 | 3192 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 7670 | 2557 |
| ASBMB | 3 | 6259 | 2086 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 5086 | 1695 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 6508 | 2169 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 3 | 2757 | 919 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 3545 | 1773 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 3017 | 1509 |
| Scientific Societies | 2 | 4267 | 2134 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1360 | 680 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 443 | 443 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1625 | 1625 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 2869 | 2869 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 672 | 672 |
| Carl Hanser Verlag | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Dundee Science Press | 1 | 499 | 499 |
| EMBO | 1 | 5815 | 5815 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1108 | 1108 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1602 | 1602 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 1 | 2100 | 2100 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 1462 | 1462 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1840 | 1840 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 1399 | 1399 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2233 | 2233 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 1666 | 1666 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 275 | 275 |
| Pesticide Science Society of Japan | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2416 | 2416 |
| Research Outreach | 1 | 883 | 883 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1142 | 1142 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 883 | 883 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1749 | 1749 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 1 | 677 | 677 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
