The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
New APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, extending previous data.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 234 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 455,372€ and the average fee is 1,946€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- AgroParisTech
- Sorbonne Université
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
- Sciences Po Paris
- Université de Côte d’Azur
- Université Paris Nanterre
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 | 54 | 88788 | 1644 |
| Springer Nature | 33 | 74002 | 2242 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 27 | 55120 | 2041 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 19 | 38442 | 2023 |
| Elsevier BV | 17 | 38874 | 2287 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 15 | 27403 | 1827 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 14 | 24699 | 1764 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 7 | 20780 | 2969 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 11081 | 2216 |
| BMJ | 4 | 6586 | 1646 |
| EDP Sciences | 3 | 900 | 300 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 6356 | 2119 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5634 | 1878 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 4247 | 1416 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 4783 | 2391 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 5246 | 2623 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 3379 | 1689 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 5879 | 2939 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2511 | 1256 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 2011 | 2011 |
| Aging and Disease | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1390 | 1390 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 2106 | 2106 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2114 | 2114 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1241 | 1241 |
| EMBO | 1 | 2925 | 2925 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 2100 | 2100 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2489 | 2489 |
| Literature Publishers | 1 | 550 | 550 |
| Remedy Publications, LLC | 1 | 1985 | 1985 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 2127 | 2127 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 225 | 225 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
