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 1,382 articles, total expenditure amounts to 3,228,854€ and the average fee is 2,336€. The data also contained 1 BPC record which is not listed here.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
- EURECOM
- INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
- Université Paris Cité
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 | 224 | 702977 | 3138 |
| MDPI AG | 217 | 361418 | 1666 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 175 | 408323 | 2333 |
| Elsevier BV | 163 | 367228 | 2253 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 93 | 159502 | 1715 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 61 | 144021 | 2361 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 55 | 147092 | 2674 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 51 | 138792 | 2721 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 30 | 83094 | 2770 |
| American Astronomical Society | 27 | 43610 | 1615 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 25 | 62918 | 2517 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 25 | 72892 | 2916 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 23 | 56655 | 2463 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 19 | 41289 | 2173 |
| IEEE | 17 | 28949 | 1703 |
| AAAS | 16 | 62010 | 3876 |
| Informa UK Limited | 15 | 31546 | 2103 |
| IOP Publishing | 13 | 26626 | 2048 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 12 | 28692 | 2391 |
| AIP Publishing | 10 | 29103 | 2910 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 10 | 15375 | 1537 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 9 | 20040 | 2227 |
| American Meteorological Society | 8 | 14198 | 1775 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 | 31560 | 4509 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 6 | 13350 | 2225 |
| EDP Sciences | 5 | 4530 | 906 |
| The Royal Society | 5 | 9235 | 1847 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 4 | 6395 | 1599 |
| EMBO | 4 | 19000 | 4750 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 4 | 11902 | 2976 |
| The Company of Biologists | 4 | 14464 | 3616 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 6718 | 2239 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 3 | 6455 | 2152 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 2 | 2842 | 1421 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 2 | 2209 | 1104 |
| Geological Society of America | 2 | 5186 | 2593 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4076 | 2038 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 957 | 478 |
| Project Muse | 2 | 3547 | 1774 |
| Research Desk Inc | 2 | 2161 | 1081 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 2 | 6629 | 3315 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 2 | 4367 | 2183 |
| Scientific Archives LLC | 2 | 1020 | 510 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2 | 1383 | 691 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1363 | 1363 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2200 | 2200 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 2002 | 2002 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 875 | 875 |
| GeoScienceWorld | 1 | 2163 | 2163 |
| Human Kinetics | 1 | 2388 | 2388 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 502 | 502 |
| Journal of Biological Methods | 1 | 1887 | 1887 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2838 | 2838 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| Open Library of the Humanities | 1 | 522 | 522 |
| Organization for Human Brain Mapping | 1 | 743 | 743 |
| Scholink Co, Ltd. | 1 | 293 | 293 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 690 | 690 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 450 | 450 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
