The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 2 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 101 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 154,993€ and the average fee is 1,535€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Montpellier
- Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
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 | 27 | 45240 | 1676 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 13 | 23662 | 1820 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 11 | 17453 | 1587 |
| MDPI AG | 10 | 12914 | 1291 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 12351 | 1764 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 13468 | 2245 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 2365 | 591 |
| The Royal Society | 4 | 4536 | 1134 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 3382 | 1691 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2955 | 1478 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 1535 | 768 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1195 | 598 |
| AAAS | 1 | 3527 | 3527 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 672 | 672 |
| Association des Amis du Laboratoire des Reptiles et Amphibiens du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris (AALRAM) | 1 | 90 | 90 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1485 | 1485 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2169 | 2169 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1858 | 1858 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 405 | 405 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1083 | 1083 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 848 | 848 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
