The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 21 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with two institutions 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 1,266 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2,602,305€ and the average fee is 2,056€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Caen Normandie
- Ecole centrale de Lyon
- CHU de Rennes
- Université Clermont Auvergne
- ENGEES
- Université de Haute-Alsace
- IFREMER
- INRIA
- INSA Strasbourg
- INSERM
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
- ISARA
- Le Mans Université
- Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais - LNE
- Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- La Rochelle Université
- Université Savoie Mont Blanc
- Université de Tours
- Université de Bretagne-Sud
- Université de Nîmes (new)
- Université de Rennes 2 (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 | 311 | 481802 | 1549 |
| Springer Nature | 246 | 607496 | 2469 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 225 | 493386 | 2193 |
| Elsevier BV | 166 | 372532 | 2244 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 47 | 87102 | 1853 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 32 | 71141 | 2223 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 26 | 68640 | 2640 |
| BMJ | 19 | 41813 | 2201 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 14 | 33675 | 2405 |
| Informa UK Limited | 13 | 24382 | 1876 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 12 | 22553 | 1879 |
| IEEE | 12 | 16315 | 1360 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 8 | 7862 | 983 |
| AAAS | 7 | 29291 | 4184 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 5 | 12597 | 2519 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 5 | 10277 | 2055 |
| Microbiology Society | 5 | 9379 | 1876 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 8924 | 1785 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 5 | 11303 | 2261 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 4 | 7939 | 1985 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 4 | 8982 | 2246 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 4 | 10826 | 2707 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 4395 | 1099 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 4 | 7721 | 1930 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 4 | 11524 | 2881 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 3808 | 952 |
| EMBO | 3 | 13500 | 4500 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 7931 | 2644 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 4925 | 1642 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 5339 | 1780 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 3 | 2334 | 778 |
| Spandidos Publications | 3 | 5890 | 1963 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 3 | 1785 | 595 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 3 | 1350 | 450 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 4103 | 2051 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 2 | 13300 | 6650 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 6754 | 3377 |
| Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd | 2 | 1467 | 733 |
| IOS Press | 2 | 2400 | 1200 |
| Magnolia Press | 2 | 345 | 173 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 2 | 4150 | 2075 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 9162 | 4581 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2027 | 1014 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 5870 | 2935 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 1880 | 1880 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1167 | 1167 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1390 | 1390 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 827 | 827 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 2558 | 2558 |
| ASME International | 1 | 2517 | 2517 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 805 | 805 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 3126 | 3126 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1191 | 1191 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| European Cells and Materials | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2605 | 2605 |
| JoGH Ltd | 1 | 1099 | 1099 |
| Joule Inc. | 1 | 1260 | 1260 |
| Landscape Online | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Maad Rayan Publishing Company | 1 | 516 | 516 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 721 | 721 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| Old City Publishing, Inc | 1 | 2120 | 2120 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 1770 | 1770 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 120 | 120 |
| Remedy Publications | 1 | 1402 | 1402 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 2446 | 2446 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 1 | 2300 | 2300 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1012 | 1012 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1834 | 1834 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 1 | 510 | 510 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 230 | 230 |
| The Endocrine Society | 1 | 3075 | 3075 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 975 | 975 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1100 | 1100 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
