The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 6 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 135 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 283,712€ and the average fee is 2,102€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- ENS de Lyon
- Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
- INSERM
- Université de Nantes
- Université de Poitiers
- Université de Toulon
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 | 34 | 48969 | 1440 |
| Springer Nature | 23 | 60969 | 2651 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 18 | 42037 | 2335 |
| Elsevier BV | 17 | 40554 | 2386 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 7 | 13182 | 1883 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 7258 | 1452 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 7160 | 2387 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 8529 | 2843 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 7958 | 2653 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 8800 | 2933 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3810 | 1905 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4400 | 2200 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 4637 | 2318 |
| AAAS | 1 | 4500 | 4500 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 425 | 425 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 717 | 717 |
| American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | 1 | 1487 | 1487 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 463 | 463 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2200 | 2200 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4700 | 4700 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1715 | 1715 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Longdom Group | 1 | 1705 | 1705 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 836 | 836 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 4400 | 4400 |
| Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava | 1 | 300 | 300 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
