The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 5 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 81 articles, total expenditure amounts to 163,501€ and the average fee is 2,019€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- ANSM - Agence Nationale de Sécurité des Médicaments et des produits de santé
- Université Côte d’Azur - UCA
- IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer
- IMT Atlantique Bretagne - Pays de la Loire
- Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne - Paris XII (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 | 14 | 26645 | 1903 |
| Elsevier BV | 13 | 17905 | 1377 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 12 | 32431 | 2703 |
| Springer Nature | 10 | 21812 | 2181 |
| IEEE | 7 | 9877 | 1411 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 6180 | 2060 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 7440 | 3720 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2293 | 1146 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 6638 | 3319 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 7310 | 3655 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1443 | 1443 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1855 | 1855 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 1 | 3465 | 3465 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 578 | 578 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1855 | 1855 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 1695 | 1695 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1945 | 1945 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1673 | 1673 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 2007 | 2007 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2672 | 2672 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 840 | 840 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 943 | 943 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
