Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 6 institutions


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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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