The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 2 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 1,401 articles, total expenditure amounts to 2,964,335€ and the average fee is 2,116€. 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:
- CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
- ONERA - Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales - The French Aerospace Lab
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 | 261 | 721524 | 2764 |
| MDPI AG | 201 | 278536 | 1386 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 176 | 359219 | 2041 |
| Elsevier BV | 152 | 346857 | 2282 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 84 | 144299 | 1718 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 81 | 214478 | 2648 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 67 | 176946 | 2641 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 48 | 88539 | 1845 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 41 | 90146 | 2199 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 27 | 58155 | 2154 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 22 | 48920 | 2224 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 19 | 41329 | 2175 |
| IOP Publishing | 19 | 36674 | 1930 |
| AAAS | 18 | 55445 | 3080 |
| Informa UK Limited | 14 | 26581 | 1899 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 13 | 19895 | 1530 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 11 | 27213 | 2474 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 11 | 10396 | 945 |
| American Astronomical Society | 10 | 5672 | 567 |
| AIP Publishing | 9 | 18775 | 2086 |
| EDP Sciences | 9 | 3700 | 411 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 7 | 29714 | 4245 |
| The Company of Biologists | 7 | 19928 | 2847 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 5 | 11490 | 2298 |
| IEEE | 5 | 6378 | 1276 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 5 | 2657 | 531 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 4 | 14974 | 3743 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 4 | 2412 | 603 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 4 | 8806 | 2201 |
| Mineralogical Society of America | 4 | 10205 | 2551 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 10076 | 2519 |
| The Royal Society | 4 | 7147 | 1787 |
| American Meteorological Society | 3 | 2682 | 894 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 3 | 5979 | 1993 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 3 | 2844 | 948 |
| Geological Society of America | 3 | 6244 | 2081 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 3 | 1535 | 512 |
| University of California Press | 3 | 3672 | 1224 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 1598 | 799 |
| Open Library of the Humanities | 2 | 764 | 382 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 1189 | 594 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 2 | 2338 | 1169 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 4628 | 2314 |
| Academic Journals | 1 | 323 | 323 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 811 | 811 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1133 | 1133 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1557 | 1557 |
| BiomedGrid LLC | 1 | 1205 | 1205 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 936 | 936 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| Brill | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering and Catalysis | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 892 | 892 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Emerald | 1 | 2880 | 2880 |
| European Association of Geochemistry | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 240 | 240 |
| Institute of Electrostatics Japan | 1 | 170 | 170 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2900 | 2900 |
| Magnolia Press | 1 | 157 | 157 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2746 | 2746 |
| MedCrave Group, LLC | 1 | 909 | 909 |
| Meteorological Society of Japan | 1 | 1830 | 1830 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 987 | 987 |
| Research Desk Inc | 1 | 212 | 212 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 665 | 665 |
| Scientific Archives | 1 | 447 | 447 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2439 | 2439 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1638 | 1638 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2250 | 2250 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
