The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 4 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact person for Couperin is Valerie Larroque.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 105 articles, total expenditure amounts to 222,038€ and the average fee is 2,115€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- ESRF - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer
- ONERA - Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales - The French Aerospace Lab
- Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
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 | 19 | 52480 | 2762 |
| MDPI AG | 17 | 31606 | 1859 |
| Elsevier BV | 13 | 25222 | 1940 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 11 | 24545 | 2231 |
| IUCr | 8 | 11467 | 1433 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 6 | 12413 | 2069 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 6108 | 1527 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 7611 | 1903 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 5120 | 1707 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 8155 | 2718 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 6910 | 2303 |
| AAAS | 2 | 7782 | 3891 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 4680 | 2340 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 4923 | 2462 |
| REABIC | 2 | 2660 | 1330 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1578 | 1578 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2440 | 2440 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 3100 | 3100 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 716 | 716 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Stockholm University Press | 1 | 1331 | 1331 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
