The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 19 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 371 articles, total expenditure amounts to 715,118€ and the average fee is 1,928€. The data also contained 13 BPC records which are not listed here, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Avignon Université
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes
- CIRAD - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement
- Ecole polytechnique
- ENGEES - Ecole nationale du Génie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement de Strasbourg
- ENSTA Bretagne - Ecole nationale supérieure de techniques avancées - Bretagne
- INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
- LNE - Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais
- Université de Lille
- Université de Nîmes
- Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I
- Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense - Paris X
- Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- Université de Rennes
- Université de Rennes II Haute-Bretagne
- Université de technologie de Troyes
- Université de Tours
- Université Le Havre Normandie
- IMT Mines Alès (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 | 92 | 159541 | 1734 |
| Elsevier BV | 79 | 125272 | 1586 |
| Springer Nature | 53 | 144067 | 2718 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 33 | 81275 | 2463 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 12 | 21575 | 1798 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 11 | 31005 | 2819 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 12020 | 1717 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 10483 | 1747 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 14635 | 2439 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 5 | 7127 | 1425 |
| IEEE | 5 | 7162 | 1432 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 5 | 9118 | 1824 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 6641 | 1660 |
| Scientific Societies | 4 | 6926 | 1732 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 6232 | 2077 |
| BMJ | 3 | 6898 | 2299 |
| EDP Sciences | 3 | 1140 | 380 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 4979 | 2490 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 2 | 240 | 120 |
| Gavin Publishers | 2 | 3221 | 1610 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 3890 | 1945 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 2956 | 1478 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 2 | 2530 | 1265 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2516 | 1258 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 2 | 1200 | 600 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 3900 | 1950 |
| AAAS | 1 | 2225 | 2225 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1535 | 1535 |
| BiomedGrid LLC | 1 | 701 | 701 |
| Bologna University Press | 1 | 2900 | 2900 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2443 | 2443 |
| Commonwealth Forestry Association | 1 | 873 | 873 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 772 | 772 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 3364 | 3364 |
| Fuji Technology Press Ltd. | 1 | 1841 | 1841 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2325 | 2325 |
| IGI Global | 1 | 900 | 900 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2477 | 2477 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1882 | 1882 |
| Journal on Surgery | 1 | 307 | 307 |
| Knowledge Enterprise Journals | 1 | 3558 | 3558 |
| Mineralogical Society of America | 1 | 3337 | 3337 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1093 | 1093 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1890 | 1890 |
| SciVision Publishers LLC | 1 | 1929 | 1929 |
| South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT) | 1 | 278 | 278 |
| University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries | 1 | 795 | 795 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1140 | 1140 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
