03 Jun 2022
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

03 Jun 2022
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

31 May 2022
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
