The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 16 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 190 articles, total expenditure amounts to 406,036€ and the average fee is 2,137€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes
- Université Côte d’Azur - UniCA
- EHESP - Ecole des hautes études en santé publique
- ESRF - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
- EURECOM
- IMT Atlantique Bretagne - Pays de la Loire
- Université Le Havre Normandie
- IMT Mines Alès
- Université de Nîmes
- Université d’Orléans
- Université de Picardie Jules Verne
- Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne”
- Université de Rennes
- Université de Rennes II Haute-Bretagne
- Université de Toulon
- Université de technologie de Troyes
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 44 | 96647 | 2197 |
| Springer Nature | 34 | 96535 | 2839 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 23 | 42217 | 1836 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 13 | 21339 | 1641 |
| Elsevier BV | 8 | 14186 | 1773 |
| Informa UK Limited | 7 | 21680 | 3097 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 5 | 12825 | 2565 |
| BMJ | 4 | 15893 | 3973 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 6894 | 1723 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 5840 | 1947 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4604 | 1535 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 3618 | 1809 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2 | 6055 | 3028 |
| American Society of Hematology | 2 | 6210 | 3105 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 3501 | 1751 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 3875 | 1938 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 6548 | 3274 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3178 | 1589 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 3540 | 1770 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2467 | 1234 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 2845 | 1422 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 4902 | 2451 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 862 | 862 |
| ClinMed International Library | 1 | 1695 | 1695 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 1 | 120 | 120 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 402 | 402 |
| Firenze University Press | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Gavin Publishers | 1 | 910 | 910 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 2726 | 2726 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 486 | 486 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 1008 | 1008 |
| Montenegrin Sports Academy | 1 | 215 | 215 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 950 | 950 |
| SEMES (Sociedad Espanola de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias) | 1 | 1440 | 1440 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 3437 | 3437 |
| Stellenbosch University | 1 | 132 | 132 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 1 | 828 | 828 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1440 | 1440 |
| Thomas Telford Ltd. | 1 | 1438 | 1438 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 486 | 486 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 762 | 762 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
