Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 14 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 14 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 211 articles, total expenditure amounts to 426,677€ and the average fee is 2,022€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Université de Bourgogne
  • Ecole centrale de Lyon
  • ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile
  • Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
  • IRSN - Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
  • Le Mans Université
  • Mines Paris - Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris
  • Université d’Orléans
  • Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour - UPPA
  • La Rochelle Université
  • Sciences Po Paris - Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris
  • Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
  • Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne - Paris XII
  • Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (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 55 100807 1833
Elsevier BV 33 55867 1693
Springer Nature 27 69732 2583
Frontiers Media SA 26 61448 2363
Copernicus GmbH 8 12669 1584
Informa UK Limited 8 23045 2881
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 10843 1807
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 7035 1759
IOP Publishing 4 9898 2474
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 9669 2417
Wiley-Blackwell 3 7798 2600
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 4365 2183
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2 4710 2355
SAGE Publications 2 4200 2100
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 1150 1150
AIP Publishing 1 1263 1263
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2017 2017
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2402 2402
American Society for Microbiology 1 3580 3580
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2940 2940
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 300 300
CSIRO Publishing 1 946 946
EDP Sciences 1 1070 1070
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1171 1171
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 2500 2500
IGI Global 1 485 485
Institute of Navigation 1 932 932
Japan Laser Processing Society 1 339 339
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 1779 1779
Magnus Med Club LLC - USA 1 497 497
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 3600 3600
Optica Publishing Group 1 1536 1536
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2099 2099
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2842 2842
Science Publishing Group 1 276 276
Scientific Societies 1 2134 2134
University of California Press 1 896 896
University of Uludag 1 1520 1520
University of Wisconsin Press 1 2017 2017
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2000 2000
Whioce Publishing Pte Ltd 1 2299 2299

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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TH Köln joins OpenAPC

We welcome the TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences as new contributing institution!

The University Library is in charge of the University’s Publishing Fund.

An initial data set on on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements for the 2023 period has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Kerstin Klein.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the TH Köln covers publication fees for 25 articles, total expenditure amounts to 49,154€ and the average fee is 1,966€. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 11 21157 1923
Elsevier BV 4 9530 2382
Springer Nature 3 5975 1992
Frontiers Media SA 2 5142 2571
Informa UK Limited 1 2710 2710
Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte Ltd (NASS) 1 100 100
SAGE Publications 1 2810 2810
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 540 540
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1190 1190

Overview

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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HAWK joins OpenAPC

We welcome the HAWK University of applied sciences and arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen as new contributing institution!

The University Library is in charge of the University’s Publishing Fund.

An initial data set on APC expenditures and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature for the 2020-2023 period has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Simon Inselmann.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by HAWK covers publication fees for 8 articles, total expenditure amounts to 13,210€ and the average fee is 1,651€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 4 5616 1404
Springer Nature 3 5793 1931
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1800 1800

Overview

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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