The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 4 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 319 articles, total expenditure amounts to 664,512€ and the average fee is 2,083€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Lille
- Université Paris Cité
- Ecole polytechnique
- Université de Strasbourg
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 | 80 | 134936 | 1687 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 64 | 152380 | 2381 |
| Springer Nature | 49 | 131506 | 2684 |
| Elsevier BV | 30 | 63811 | 2127 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 12 | 21660 | 1805 |
| Informa UK Limited | 9 | 25285 | 2809 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 16750 | 2094 |
| Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik | 7 | 700 | 100 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 6 | 15419 | 2570 |
| BMJ | 4 | 10672 | 2668 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 7621 | 2540 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 5732 | 1911 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 3424 | 1141 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 3123 | 1041 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 5515 | 1838 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 6280 | 2093 |
| American Meteorological Society | 2 | 3079 | 1539 |
| AAAS | 1 | 3691 | 3691 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 885 | 885 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 2745 | 2745 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 5226 | 5226 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 3067 | 3067 |
| Brill | 1 | 344 | 344 |
| Caltech Library | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 386 | 386 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 4611 | 4611 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 981 | 981 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| IEEE | 1 | 2634 | 2634 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| International Journal of Medical Science and Health Research | 1 | 150 | 150 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1706 | 1706 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 1729 | 1729 |
| Mineralogical Society of America | 1 | 3087 | 3087 |
| Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery | 1 | 960 | 960 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1950 | 1950 |
| Royal College of General Practitioners | 1 | 2404 | 2404 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1360 | 1360 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 3358 | 3358 |
| Scholink Co, Ltd. | 1 | 280 | 280 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1974 | 1974 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1803 | 1803 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 888 | 888 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 100 | 100 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
