The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 11 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 532 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,172,380€ and the average fee is 2,204€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université Gustave Eiffel
- Université de Haute-Alsace
- HCL - Hospices civils de Lyon
- IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- Université Lumière - Lyon II
- Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
- La Rochelle Université
- Sorbonne Université
- Université de Strasbourg
- Université de Bretagne Sud - UBS
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille (new)
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data set provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 105 | 294463 | 2804 |
| MDPI AG | 95 | 201971 | 2126 |
| Elsevier BV | 91 | 183437 | 2016 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 54 | 136313 | 2524 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 22 | 65626 | 2983 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 18 | 28117 | 1562 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 17693 | 1608 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 21161 | 2116 |
| Informa UK Limited | 9 | 17402 | 1934 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 8 | 6144 | 768 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 8 | 5377 | 672 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 7 | 9502 | 1357 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 7 | 14784 | 2112 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 5 | 8979 | 1796 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 5 | 11070 | 2214 |
| EDP Sciences | 5 | 5080 | 1016 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 5 | 6503 | 1301 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 4 | 11785 | 2946 |
| BioScientifica | 4 | 6676 | 1669 |
| American Meteorological Society | 3 | 2971 | 990 |
| BMJ | 3 | 8035 | 2678 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 7250 | 2417 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 8883 | 2961 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 8539 | 2846 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 3 | 1770 | 590 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 2 | 8145 | 4072 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 5512 | 2756 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 6924 | 3462 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 2 | 7462 | 3731 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 4663 | 2332 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 2 | 6316 | 3158 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 7165 | 3583 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 3447 | 1723 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 4009 | 2004 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1730 | 865 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1425 | 1425 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 2548 | 2548 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1761 | 1761 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 2740 | 2740 |
| Bio-Protocol, LLC | 1 | 1127 | 1127 |
| Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 950 | 950 |
| Crimson Publishers | 1 | 938 | 938 |
| CROMA Centro ricerche per Roma | 1 | 1050 | 1050 |
| Edizioni Internazionali srl | 1 | 302 | 302 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2635 | 2635 |
| John Libbey Eurotext | 1 | 333 | 333 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Royal College of General Practitioners | 1 | 2317 | 2317 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 983 | 983 |
| Silesian University of Technology | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 3131 | 3131 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1810 | 1810 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd | 1 | 758 | 758 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
