The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 29 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with five 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 1,299 articles, total expenditure amounts to 3,522,822€ and the average fee is 2,712€. 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:
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Université Clermont Auvergne
- Université de Bordeaux
- Ecole centrale de Lyon
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille
- Université de Technologie de Compiègne
- EnvA - Ecole nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort
- Université Gustave Eiffel
- HCL - Hospices civils de Lyon
- INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
- Université de Limoges
- LNE - Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais
- Université de Lorraine
- Université de Montpellier
- Nantes Université
- Université Vincennes-Saint Denis - Paris VIII
- Université Paris-Dauphine - Paris IX
- Université de Poitiers
- Sciences Po Paris - Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
- Sorbonne Université
- Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
- Université de Bretagne Sud - UBS
- Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne - Paris XII
- Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
- Université Marie et Louis Pasteur (new)
- Centrale Nantes (new)
- ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech (new)
- INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (new)
- INSEP - Institut National du Sport, de l’Expertise et de la Performance (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 | 378 | 1241159 | 3283 |
| Elsevier BV | 155 | 403984 | 2606 |
| MDPI AG | 154 | 375221 | 2436 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 101 | 259994 | 2574 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 71 | 212497 | 2993 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 35 | 56826 | 1624 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 35 | 74732 | 2135 |
| Informa UK Limited | 31 | 82220 | 2652 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 29 | 65932 | 2274 |
| BMJ | 19 | 64408 | 3390 |
| AAAS | 17 | 65632 | 3861 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 17 | 45873 | 2698 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 17 | 56849 | 3344 |
| SAGE Publications | 15 | 34563 | 2304 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 14 | 14659 | 1047 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 13 | 35905 | 2762 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 12 | 41587 | 3466 |
| IEEE | 11 | 20090 | 1826 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 10 | 21411 | 2141 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 8 | 16862 | 2108 |
| IOP Publishing | 8 | 15300 | 1913 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 7 | 35405 | 5058 |
| American Society of Hematology | 6 | 17015 | 2836 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 6 | 7908 | 1318 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 5 | 8750 | 1750 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 5 | 15252 | 3050 |
| The Royal Society | 5 | 8049 | 1610 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 5 | 10895 | 2179 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 10147 | 2537 |
| EDP Sciences | 4 | 3920 | 980 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 4 | 8924 | 2231 |
| The Endocrine Society | 4 | 10749 | 2687 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 7778 | 2593 |
| American Astronomical Society | 3 | 5088 | 1696 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 3 | 8440 | 2813 |
| Gavin Publishers | 3 | 7077 | 2359 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 3 | 9947 | 3316 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 3 | 10074 | 3358 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 3 | 6798 | 2266 |
| American College of Physicians | 2 | 1858 | 929 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 4156 | 2078 |
| American Physiological Society | 2 | 1798 | 899 |
| International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | 2 | 4850 | 2425 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 2 | 5545 | 2773 |
| JLE | 2 | 733 | 367 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 2 | 7500 | 3750 |
| MIT Press | 2 | 2921 | 1461 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 2784 | 1392 |
| MyJove Corporation | 2 | 5700 | 2850 |
| Open Access Publishing Group | 2 | 167 | 83 |
| PeerJ | 2 | 3564 | 1782 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 5455 | 2728 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1573 | 787 |
| Academia Scientiarum Bohemoslovaca | 1 | 1136 | 1136 |
| Acta Scientific Publications Pvt. Ltd. | 1 | 485 | 485 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 6600 | 6600 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 2888 | 2888 |
| American Speech Language Hearing Association | 1 | 1925 | 1925 |
| Bio-Protocol, LLC | 1 | 1155 | 1155 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 2888 | 2888 |
| Center for Transportation Studies | 1 | 1369 | 1369 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 3700 | 3700 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1711 | 1711 |
| Edizioni FS | 1 | 249 | 249 |
| European Association of Geochemistry | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 3640 | 3640 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 850 | 850 |
| Fortune Journals | 1 | 2391 | 2391 |
| Harvard University | 1 | 1821 | 1821 |
| Heighten Science Publications Corporation | 1 | 1754 | 1754 |
| Insight Medical Publishing | 1 | 519 | 519 |
| Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| International Global Health Society | 1 | 1441 | 1441 |
| Istituto Italiano di Antropologia | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 1481 | 1481 |
| Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1 | 1191 | 1191 |
| Juniper Publishers | 1 | 430 | 430 |
| KIPS-CSWRG | 1 | 3600 | 3600 |
| Maad Rayan Publishing Company | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 1764 | 1764 |
| MJS Publishing, Medical Journals Sweden AB | 1 | 1750 | 1750 |
| OAE Publishing Inc. | 1 | 2007 | 2007 |
| Pan African Medical Journal | 1 | 204 | 204 |
| Peeters | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 848 | 848 |
| Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery | 1 | 141 | 141 |
| Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) | 1 | 3265 | 3265 |
| Research Desk Inc | 1 | 1040 | 1040 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 2798 | 2798 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 832 | 832 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 3440 | 3440 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| The International Institute of Anticancer Research | 1 | 1289 | 1289 |
| University of Zielona Góra, Poland | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Vilnius University Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies | 1 | 546 | 546 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 1 | 2286 | 2286 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
