Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 6 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

Additional APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with one institution being included for the first time.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 76 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 117,801€ and the average fee is 1,550€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM)
  • Université des Antilles
  • Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
  • ENSTA Bretagne
  • Université Gustave Eiffel
  • Université Jean Moulin - Lyon III (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
MDPI AG 30 38743 1291
Elsevier BV 11 15190 1381
Springer Nature 7 18342 2620
Frontiers Media SA 6 10065 1678
Informa UK Limited 5 10600 2120
Copernicus GmbH 4 4201 1050
IEEE 3 4729 1576
Wiley-Blackwell 2 6900 3450
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 763 763
Agora University of Oradea 1 500 500
American Society of Hematology 1 2217 2217
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1257 1257
Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences 1 480 480
Lupine Publishers 1 91 91
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2902 2902
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 820 820

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 2 institutions

The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

APC expenditures for 2 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 147 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 232 277€ and the average fee is 1 580€. The contribution also contained BPC data for one OA monograph which is not listed here.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • Södertörns University

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 89 128624 1445
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 15839 1584
Frontiers Media SA 7 12337 1762
Springer Nature 7 15168 2167
Informa UK Limited 4 7019 1755
Canadian Science Publishing 3 6408 2136
Copernicus GmbH 3 3925 1308
Elsevier BV 3 6207 2069
Wageningen Academic Publishers 3 5274 1758
Wiley-Blackwell 3 9454 3151
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 2 1988 994
The Royal Society 2 4018 2009
American Dairy Science Association 1 1312 1312
American Society for Microbiology 1 956 956
BioScientifica 1 1650 1650
BMJ 1 2538 2538
Finnish Society of Forest Science 1 800 800
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 2542 2542
Information Society Research 1 932 932
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library 1 494 494
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 602 602
SAGE Publications 1 2620 2620
University of Wisconsin Press 1 1570 1570

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt as new contributing institution!

The University Library Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme in 2020 and 2021.

Contact persons is Carola Bauch-Schuster.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt covers publication fees for 55 journal articles, total expenditure amounts to 108,437€ and the average fee is 1,972€. The contribution also contained BPC data for one OA monograph which is not listed here.

The following table and plots provide an overview of the contributed article cost data.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 18 36126 2007
Springer Nature 9 19119 2124
Frontiers Media SA 6 17186 2864
Informa UK Limited 6 9342 1557
Elsevier BV 4 9948 2487
Copernicus GmbH 2 4869 2435
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1706 853
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 850 850
Berlin Regener Publishing House 1 357 357
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2732 2732
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 533 533
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1686 1686
SAGE Publications 1 330 330
Schweizerbart 1 2641 2641
University of Bern 1 1009 1009

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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