The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 12 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with two institutions being included for the first time.
Contact person for Couperin is Valerie Larroque.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 234 articles, total expenditure amounts to 506,328€ and the average fee is 2,164€. The data also contained BPC records which are not listed here. BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC data set.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université des Antilles
- Avignon Université
- Université de Bourgogne
- Université de Caen Normandie
- CIRAD - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement
- IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
- Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
- Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense - Paris X
- Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- Université de Rennes II Haute-Bretagne
- Centre Georges-François Leclerc (CGFL) - Centre régional de lutte contre le cancer du réseau UNICANCER (new)
- Université de la Polynésie française (new)
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 | 59 | 151449 | 2567 |
| MDPI AG | 36 | 79893 | 2219 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 31 | 72152 | 2327 |
| Elsevier BV | 20 | 36344 | 1817 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 17 | 30106 | 1771 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 13 | 36199 | 2785 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 17205 | 2868 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 6 | 12952 | 2159 |
| IEEE | 5 | 9566 | 1913 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 6804 | 2268 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 5111 | 2555 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 1550 | 775 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 4775 | 2388 |
| Société zoologique de France | 2 | 315 | 158 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1271 | 1271 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2450 | 2450 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1935 | 1935 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 560 | 560 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1 | 2776 | 2776 |
| BMJ | 1 | 4090 | 4090 |
| CABI Publishing | 1 | 2037 | 2037 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1569 | 1569 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1050 | 1050 |
| Crimson Publishers | 1 | 279 | 279 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 1821 | 1821 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 1 | 370 | 370 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 193 | 193 |
| Gavin Publishers | 1 | 477 | 477 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 2914 | 2914 |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation | 1 | 1000 | 1000 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 2520 | 2520 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1934 | 1934 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1737 | 1737 |
| Pulsus Group | 1 | 1819 | 1819 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1120 | 1120 |
| Scholar Publishing | 1 | 205 | 205 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 455 | 455 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 585 | 585 |
| The Electromagnetics Academy | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 2040 | 2040 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 989 | 989 |
| Universidad Nacional de Trujillo | 1 | 380 | 380 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1880 | 1880 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
