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, with one institution 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 1,191 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2,161,203€ and the average fee is 1,815€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Bourgogne
- CNRS
- Université de Lorraine
- Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III
- Sorbonne Université
- École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort - EnvA (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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 296 | 648268 | 2190 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 131 | 234685 | 1791 |
| MDPI AG | 109 | 124744 | 1144 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 98 | 147431 | 1504 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 80 | 127979 | 1600 |
| Elsevier BV | 77 | 205383 | 2667 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 50 | 99549 | 1991 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 43 | 79851 | 1857 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 25 | 40232 | 1609 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 24 | 49364 | 2057 |
| IOP Publishing | 22 | 34931 | 1588 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 20 | 16851 | 843 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 16 | 33212 | 2076 |
| Informa UK Limited | 15 | 18422 | 1228 |
| AAAS | 13 | 40893 | 3146 |
| IEEE | 12 | 16967 | 1414 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 11 | 10619 | 965 |
| EMBO | 7 | 24500 | 3500 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 7 | 20114 | 2873 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 7 | 4173 | 596 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 | 14115 | 2353 |
| The Royal Society | 6 | 10990 | 1832 |
| AIP Publishing | 5 | 5585 | 1117 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 5 | 8903 | 1781 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 5 | 14680 | 2936 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 5 | 10840 | 2168 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 4 | 11704 | 2926 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 6563 | 1641 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 3047 | 762 |
| American Meteorological Society | 3 | 2057 | 686 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 3 | 8699 | 2900 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 3 | 3980 | 1327 |
| EDP Sciences | 3 | 1900 | 633 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 3 | 6240 | 2080 |
| Open Library of the Humanities | 3 | 1051 | 350 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 1467 | 489 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 3 | 4906 | 1636 |
| American Astronomical Society | 2 | 3492 | 1746 |
| American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | 2 | 2305 | 1152 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 2 | 1361 | 680 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 2932 | 1466 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 235 | 118 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 2 | 5085 | 2542 |
| MedCrave Group, LLC | 2 | 710 | 355 |
| Medical Journals Sweden AB | 2 | 1300 | 650 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 3045 | 1523 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2698 | 1349 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 2 | 1445 | 722 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 2 | 866 | 433 |
| University of California Press | 2 | 2584 | 1292 |
| American Diabetes Association | 1 | 1379 | 1379 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 615 | 615 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 931 | 931 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1566 | 1566 |
| Elyns Publishing Group | 1 | 987 | 987 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 485 | 485 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 1 | 574 | 574 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 748 | 748 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2025 | 2025 |
| Geological Society of London | 1 | 2391 | 2391 |
| IJEAS | 1 | 62 | 62 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2313 | 2313 |
| JVE International Ltd. | 1 | 510 | 510 |
| Medwin Publishers | 1 | 2599 | 2599 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2803 | 2803 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 1476 | 1476 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 965 | 965 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1248 | 1248 |
| Prime Scholars | 1 | 219 | 219 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Research online Publishing | 1 | 98 | 98 |
| Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| Science Signpost Publishing | 1 | 405 | 405 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 1160 | 1160 |
| Spandidos Publications | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| The Endocrine Society | 1 | 1060 | 1060 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1950 | 1950 |
| Whioce Publishing Pte Ltd | 1 | 360 | 360 |
| ZealPress | 1 | 174 | 174 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
