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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 6 institutions

30 Mar 2021

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

APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 4 of them reporting 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 211 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 390,755€ and the average fee is 1,852€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Université Evry Val-d’Essonne
  • Université de Rennes 1
  • Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (new)
  • Institut Laue-Langevin (new)
  • ISARA (new)
  • ANSM (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 36 72320 2009
MDPI AG 29 33284 1148
Elsevier BV 22 53911 2450
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 15 19485 1299
Frontiers Media SA 13 22213 1709
American Physical Society (APS) 11 24631 2239
American Chemical Society (ACS) 11 35470 3225
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 9 13813 1535
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 7 7036 1005
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 16966 2828
Optical Society of America (OSA) 6 9591 1598
Wiley-Blackwell 4 11245 2811
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 4 2003 501
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 7342 1835
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 7707 2569
Copernicus GmbH 3 6020 2007
American Medical Association (AMA) 2 6881 3441
BMJ 2 4202 2101
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 2674 1337
AIP Publishing 2 5109 2554
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2 5926 2963
IOP Publishing 2 2200 1100
Informa UK Limited 2 2890 1445
American Meteorological Society 1 1305 1305
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 1 950 950
SAGE Publications 1 890 890
The Company of Biologists 1 3000 3000
IOS Press 1 1250 1250
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2985 2985
S. Hirzel Verlag 1 350 350
American Society for Microbiology 1 1307 1307
EDP Sciences 1 300 300
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2924 2924
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1 494 494
Pensoft Publishers 1 450 450
Sci Forschen, Inc. 1 816 816
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 1 816 816

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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GEOMAR reports additional 2018 and 2019 APC expenditures

30 Mar 2021

The GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has provided more APC expenditures for the 2018 and 2019 period.

The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.

Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 29 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 66,511€ and the average fee is 2,293€.

The following table provides an overview.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 20245 1840
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 4 10931 2733
Springer Nature 3 16220 5407
Copernicus GmbH 2 3060 1530
The Royal Society 2 4080 2040
MDPI AG 2 2494 1247
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4579 2290
American Meteorological Society 1 688 688
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1574 1574
Society of Economic Geologists 1 2640 2640

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the GEOMAR now looks as follows:

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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TU Wien reports its 2020 APC expenditures

26 Mar 2021

The Technische Universität Wien has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution by TU Wien’s University Library provides data for the 2020 period.

Contact person is Magdalena Andrae.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 109 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 182,749€ and the average fee is 1,677€.

The following table shows the payments the University Library of TU Wien has made to publishers in 2020 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 66 97234 1473
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 10 16599 1660
Elsevier BV 8 12467 1558
Frontiers Media SA 7 19022 2717
Springer Nature 7 14177 2025
Wiley-Blackwell 6 15846 2641
Copernicus GmbH 2 4357 2179
Bussecon International 1 150 150
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2477 2477
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 420 420

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for TU Wien now looks as follows:

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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