The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 3 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 79 articles, total expenditure amounts to 183,141€ and the average fee is 2,318€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- ILL - Institut Laue-Langevin
- INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
- CNAM - Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
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 | 56266 | 2961 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 22607 | 2512 |
| Elsevier BV | 8 | 15836 | 1980 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 10681 | 2136 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 4 | 12090 | 3022 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 4 | 8070 | 2018 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 4 | 6981 | 1745 |
| VFOAPQ | 4 | 1800 | 450 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 3964 | 1321 |
| MDPI AG | 3 | 7457 | 2486 |
| BMJ | 2 | 7185 | 3593 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 4129 | 2065 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 2 | 5480 | 2740 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3120 | 1560 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2180 | 2180 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1600 | 1600 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2198 | 2198 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 1890 | 1890 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3350 | 3350 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1773 | 1773 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 1174 | 1174 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 3310 | 3310 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
