The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 17 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with four 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 673 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,435,827€ and the average fee is 2,133€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Ecole polytechnique (new)
- Université de Picardie Jules Verne (new)
- Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (new)
- CentraleSupélec (new)
- Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
- Université de Strasbourg
- Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
- Institut Pasteur
- Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Université de Nantes
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- Université Grenoble Alpes
- Université Evry Val-d’Essonne
- Université de Côte d’Azur
- Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
- Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
- Université d’Angers
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 | 142 | 214028 | 1507 |
| Springer Nature | 112 | 299551 | 2675 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 74 | 165670 | 2239 |
| Elsevier BV | 67 | 169982 | 2537 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 41 | 84738 | 2067 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 39 | 105930 | 2716 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 25 | 43138 | 1726 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 20 | 36103 | 1805 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 20 | 51220 | 2561 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 11 | 24326 | 2211 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 9 | 19491 | 2166 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 9 | 14371 | 1597 |
| AAAS | 8 | 26065 | 3258 |
| IEEE | 8 | 12197 | 1525 |
| IOP Publishing | 8 | 15661 | 1958 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 6 | 8048 | 1341 |
| BMJ | 6 | 11640 | 1940 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 11907 | 1984 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 5 | 10152 | 2030 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 5 | 8902 | 1780 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 4 | 4783 | 1196 |
| EMBO | 4 | 18292 | 4573 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 8940 | 2235 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 4478 | 1120 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 5782 | 1927 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 6120 | 2040 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 2 | 5499 | 2749 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 3545 | 1772 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 4674 | 2337 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 4959 | 4959 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 932 | 932 |
| American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) | 1 | 1658 | 1658 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 1 | 1730 | 1730 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 906 | 906 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 1 | 1840 | 1840 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1154 | 1154 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Gavin | 1 | 299 | 299 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 397 | 397 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2802 | 2802 |
| Ital Publication | 1 | 515 | 515 |
| Korean Society for Internet Information (KSII) | 1 | 453 | 453 |
| OpenEdition | 1 | 170 | 170 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 2348 | 2348 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 4771 | 4771 |
| Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 840 | 840 |
| Research Desk Inc | 1 | 512 | 512 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 4121 | 4121 |
| Spandidos Publications | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Trade Science Inc. | 1 | 519 | 519 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd | 1 | 1647 | 1647 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
