The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 2 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact persons for Couperin is Valerie Larroque.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 1,419 articles, total expenditure amounts to 3,627,045€ and the average fee is 2,556€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Bordeaux
- CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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 | 291 | 1009759 | 3470 |
| Elsevier BV | 161 | 387384 | 2406 |
| MDPI AG | 146 | 270178 | 1851 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 139 | 363552 | 2615 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 91 | 159596 | 1754 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 73 | 229049 | 3138 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 48 | 105052 | 2189 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 47 | 137470 | 2925 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 43 | 97616 | 2270 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 39 | 92585 | 2374 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 27 | 68893 | 2552 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 25 | 52286 | 2091 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 24 | 68939 | 2872 |
| American Astronomical Society | 22 | 41743 | 1897 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 21 | 77582 | 3694 |
| IOP Publishing | 21 | 47758 | 2274 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 18 | 31855 | 1770 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 16 | 45956 | 2872 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 14 | 27473 | 1962 |
| AIP Publishing | 12 | 31732 | 2644 |
| Informa UK Limited | 12 | 21965 | 1830 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 12 | 31607 | 2634 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 9 | 29713 | 3301 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 7 | 18000 | 2571 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 6 | 11954 | 1992 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 6 | 3738 | 623 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 | 22861 | 3810 |
| The Royal Society | 6 | 10374 | 1729 |
| EDP Sciences | 5 | 3200 | 640 |
| The Company of Biologists | 5 | 15235 | 3047 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 4 | 16648 | 4162 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 4 | 2641 | 660 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 3 | 3293 | 1098 |
| Geological Society of America | 3 | 5082 | 1694 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 3 | 10960 | 3653 |
| International Union of Radio Science (URSI) | 3 | 1349 | 450 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 3749 | 1250 |
| American Meteorological Society | 2 | 2043 | 1022 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 2 | 5573 | 2787 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 9002 | 4501 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3196 | 1598 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 2 | 4000 | 2000 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 3819 | 1909 |
| IOS Press | 2 | 4980 | 2490 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 2 | 1680 | 840 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 1281 | 640 |
| Academy of Science of South Africa | 1 | 336 | 336 |
| American Vacuum Society | 1 | 3215 | 3215 |
| Andromeda Publishing and Education Services | 1 | 366 | 366 |
| Avanti Publishers | 1 | 234 | 234 |
| Bio-Protocol, LLC | 1 | 850 | 850 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| Caltech Library | 1 | 236 | 236 |
| Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1989 | 1989 |
| International Global Health Society | 1 | 2258 | 2258 |
| International Information and Engineering Technology Association | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 1 | 817 | 817 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2460 | 2460 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 887 | 887 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1135 | 1135 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 1319 | 1319 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 3496 | 3496 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 949 | 949 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1846 | 1846 |
| Stockholm University Press | 1 | 1308 | 1308 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 850 | 850 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 870 | 870 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 2296 | 2296 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| Zoological Research | 1 | 1423 | 1423 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
