The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 10 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 1,356 articles, total expenditure amounts to 3,723,496€ and the average fee is 2,746€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Bordeaux
- CEA - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
- CNAM - Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
- ENS Lyon - Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
- Université de Franche-Comté
- INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
- Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I
- Université de Montpellier
- Université Vincennes-Saint Denis - Paris VIII
- Institut Pasteur
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 | 292 | 1054572 | 3612 |
| Elsevier BV | 253 | 605691 | 2394 |
| MDPI AG | 190 | 395951 | 2084 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 167 | 470158 | 2815 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 59 | 152712 | 2588 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 54 | 156008 | 2889 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 32 | 81488 | 2546 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 31 | 73148 | 2360 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 30 | 87328 | 2911 |
| IOP Publishing | 19 | 45366 | 2388 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 18 | 54506 | 3028 |
| Informa UK Limited | 16 | 45539 | 2846 |
| BMJ | 15 | 45865 | 3058 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 14 | 22938 | 1638 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 12 | 47084 | 3924 |
| PNAS | 11 | 33338 | 3031 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 10 | 22904 | 2290 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 9 | 30142 | 3349 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 8 | 15787 | 1973 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 6 | 27487 | 4581 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 6 | 26073 | 4346 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 6 | 11225 | 1871 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 6 | 17136 | 2856 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 6 | 21778 | 3630 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 6 | 13452 | 2242 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 8519 | 1704 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 11291 | 2823 |
| EMBO | 4 | 20400 | 5100 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 4 | 8004 | 2001 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 5074 | 1268 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 6500 | 1625 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 4737 | 1579 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 3 | 9588 | 3196 |
| The Company of Biologists | 3 | 11939 | 3980 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 5722 | 2861 |
| American Society of Hematology | 2 | 4820 | 2410 |
| Biomedical Research Network, LLC | 2 | 1952 | 976 |
| Fortune Journals | 2 | 4590 | 2295 |
| IOS Press | 2 | 4100 | 2050 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 4416 | 2208 |
| River Publishers | 2 | 950 | 475 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3761 | 1881 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 3500 | 3500 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1090 | 1090 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) | 1 | 1837 | 1837 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 1 | 4000 | 4000 |
| Annual Reviews | 1 | 374 | 374 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1385 | 1385 |
| Austin Publishing Group | 1 | 985 | 985 |
| Bio-Protocol, LLC | 1 | 1098 | 1098 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1750 | 1750 |
| Caltech Library | 1 | 230 | 230 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 814 | 814 |
| David Publishing Company | 1 | 1305 | 1305 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1150 | 1150 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 1089 | 1089 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 1 | 1445 | 1445 |
| International Global Health Society | 1 | 2223 | 2223 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2570 | 2570 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 3362 | 3362 |
| Medknow | 1 | 208 | 208 |
| MIT Press | 1 | 1600 | 1600 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 2300 | 2300 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1143 | 1143 |
| Remedy Publications | 1 | 1910 | 1910 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1880 | 1880 |
| Society of Pharmaceutical Tecnocrats | 1 | 196 | 196 |
| The Endocrine Society | 1 | 2982 | 2982 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| XMLink | 1 | 928 | 928 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
