The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with one institution being included 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 76 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 117,801€ and the average fee is 1,550€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM)
- Université des Antilles
- Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
- ENSTA Bretagne
- Université Gustave Eiffel
- Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III (new)
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 | 30 | 38743 | 1291 |
| Elsevier BV | 11 | 15190 | 1381 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 18342 | 2620 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 6 | 10065 | 1678 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 10600 | 2120 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 4201 | 1050 |
| IEEE | 3 | 4729 | 1576 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 6900 | 3450 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 763 | 763 |
| Agora University of Oradea | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 2217 | 2217 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1257 | 1257 |
| Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| Lupine Publishers | 1 | 91 | 91 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2902 | 2902 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 820 | 820 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
