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 309 articles, total expenditure amounts to 580,453€ and the average fee is 1,878€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Université de Bordeaux
- ENS de Lyon
- INRIA
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 | 61 | 124085 | 2034 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 46 | 104717 | 2276 |
| Elsevier BV | 43 | 58832 | 1368 |
| MDPI AG | 40 | 67288 | 1682 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 27 | 53187 | 1970 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 23255 | 2114 |
| IEEE | 9 | 14099 | 1567 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 8 | 19281 | 2410 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 7 | 14125 | 2018 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 6 | 5151 | 859 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 | 16141 | 2690 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 5 | 8032 | 1606 |
| BMJ | 4 | 12080 | 3020 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 9011 | 3004 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 6196 | 2065 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 5305 | 1768 |
| AAAS | 2 | 3025 | 1512 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| Academic Journals | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1694 | 1694 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2656 | 2656 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 4938 | 4938 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1642 | 1642 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2483 | 2483 |
| Hikari, Ltd. | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 885 | 885 |
| Innovative Information Science & Technology Research Group (ISYOU) | 1 | 521 | 521 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1715 | 1715 |
| MedCrave Group, LLC | 1 | 1185 | 1185 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 734 | 734 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 3091 | 3091 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1124 | 1124 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1164 | 1164 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1285 | 1285 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 2835 | 2835 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1673 | 1673 |
| The Endocrine Society | 1 | 3286 | 3286 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 870 | 870 |
| Veterinary World | 1 | 283 | 283 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 200 | 200 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
