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 333 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 630,240€ and the average fee is 1,893€. The data also contained two BPC records which are not listed here.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Avignon Université
- CIRAD
- IMT Atlantique
- Université de Nîmes
- Université de Bordeaux Montaigne (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 | 102 | 170370 | 1670 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 60 | 133660 | 2228 |
| Springer Nature | 49 | 101236 | 2066 |
| Elsevier BV | 41 | 69480 | 1695 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 29229 | 1949 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 14 | 29025 | 2073 |
| Informa UK Limited | 7 | 13864 | 1981 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6407 | 1602 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 4 | 6775 | 1694 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 12584 | 3146 |
| IEEE | 3 | 4702 | 1567 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 4221 | 2111 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 3641 | 1821 |
| BMJ | 2 | 4545 | 2272 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2102 | 1051 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3469 | 1734 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 2 | 4369 | 2184 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2958 | 1479 |
| Scientific Societies | 2 | 3477 | 1738 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 2 | 3504 | 1752 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 3658 | 3658 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 2345 | 2345 |
| Elewa Biosciences Journals | 1 | 173 | 173 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2332 | 2332 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1700 | 1700 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2098 | 2098 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1945 | 1945 |
| Medwin Publishers | 1 | 2156 | 2156 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 985 | 985 |
| Polish Society of Microbiologists | 1 | 643 | 643 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1173 | 1173 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1412 | 1412 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
