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.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 103 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 150,242€ and the average fee is 1,459€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- IMT Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire
- Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)
- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
- Université de La Rochelle
- Université de technologie de Troyes
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 56 | 79106 | 1413 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 14205 | 1776 |
| IEEE | 5 | 6817 | 1363 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 8649 | 1730 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 7473 | 1495 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 5776 | 1444 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 4 | 5943 | 1486 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 3458 | 1729 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1040 | 1040 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2200 | 2200 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 3058 | 3058 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 2233 | 2233 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| Hilaris | 1 | 852 | 852 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 41 | 41 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1125 | 1125 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1424 | 1424 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 923 | 923 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 816 | 816 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1023 | 1023 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
