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 three 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 369 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 747,008€ and the average fee is 2,024€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Bordeaux
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - ESRF
- INRIA
- Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail - ANSES (new)
- École des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique - EHESP (new)
- Université Paris-Cité (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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 91 | 144364 | 1586 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 61 | 134913 | 2212 |
| Springer Nature | 53 | 118914 | 2244 |
| Elsevier BV | 38 | 85513 | 2250 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 30 | 54272 | 1809 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 14 | 35262 | 2519 |
| Informa UK Limited | 8 | 15585 | 1948 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 8 | 25857 | 3232 |
| BMJ | 7 | 15302 | 2186 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 6 | 12453 | 2075 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 6 | 15778 | 2630 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 7336 | 1834 |
| AAAS | 2 | 9000 | 4500 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 4995 | 2498 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 3461 | 1731 |
| Fortune Journals | 2 | 1428 | 714 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3503 | 1752 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 2 | 3671 | 1835 |
| Open Library of the Humanities | 2 | 863 | 432 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 7742 | 3871 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 1332 | 666 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 5573 | 2787 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 721 | 361 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 4380 | 2190 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1450 | 1450 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 2338 | 2338 |
| ALTEX Edition | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3336 | 3336 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 3105 | 3105 |
| Briefland | 1 | 874 | 874 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1309 | 1309 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
| eSciPub LLC | 1 | 262 | 262 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1602 | 1602 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 572 | 572 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 3400 | 3400 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Insight Medical Publishing | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 3522 | 3522 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1606 | 1606 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 4191 | 4191 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1042 | 1042 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 600 | 600 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
