The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 13 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 790 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,600,110€ and the average fee is 2,025€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- AgroParisTech
- Université des Antilles
- Université de Caen Normandie
- Université de Technologie de Compiègne
- ENS Paris - Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
- INRAE - Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement
- Université de Lorraine
- MNHN - Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
- Université de Picardie Jules Verne
- Université de Poitiers
- Université Savoie Mont Blanc
- Université de Toulon
- Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III - USN (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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 153 | 233205 | 1524 |
| Springer Nature | 152 | 382414 | 2516 |
| MDPI AG | 140 | 263985 | 1886 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 87 | 205395 | 2361 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 34 | 67206 | 1977 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 34 | 82335 | 2422 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 29 | 79079 | 2727 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 20 | 48876 | 2444 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 13 | 24642 | 1896 |
| Informa UK Limited | 13 | 32915 | 2532 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 12 | 27298 | 2275 |
| IEEE | 12 | 16778 | 1398 |
| AAAS | 6 | 15908 | 2651 |
| Schweizerbart | 6 | 8893 | 1482 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 5 | 13166 | 2633 |
| Scientific Societies | 5 | 11821 | 2364 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 4 | 7842 | 1961 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 4 | 1724 | 431 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 4 | 4351 | 1088 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 3640 | 1213 |
| International Journal of Science and Research | 3 | 465 | 155 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 5399 | 1800 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 4915 | 1638 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 2 | 2145 | 1072 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 1810 | 905 |
| Firenze University Press | 2 | 1600 | 800 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 5412 | 2706 |
| IOS Press | 2 | 2400 | 1200 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 4120 | 2060 |
| Advances in Weed Science | 1 | 456 | 456 |
| Aging and Disease | 1 | 1444 | 1444 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 597 | 597 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1534 | 1534 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2411 | 2411 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 769 | 769 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1699 | 1699 |
| Berghahn Books | 1 | 1127 | 1127 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2800 | 2800 |
| Brill | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| Corpus Publishers | 1 | 397 | 397 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2901 | 2901 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1265 | 1265 |
| International Journal Of Advanced Research | 1 | 109 | 109 |
| Iris Publishers | 1 | 2114 | 2114 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 1975 | 1975 |
| John Libbey Eurotext | 1 | 333 | 333 |
| Korean Society for Stem Cell Research | 1 | 470 | 470 |
| LIDSEN Publishing Inc | 1 | 120 | 120 |
| Medknow | 1 | 194 | 194 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3691 | 3691 |
| North Atlantic University Union (NAUN) | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1113 | 1113 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 1355 | 1355 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1118 | 1118 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1311 | 1311 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 925 | 925 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| Slovenian Association Informatika | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2222 | 2222 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 695 | 695 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 603 | 603 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 375 | 375 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
