22 Oct 2019
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures for the Aix-Marseille Université have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 310 articles published at Aix-Marseille Université in 2012 - 2014, 2016 and 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 453 068€ and the average fee is 1 462€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data set provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
79 |
96812 |
1225 |
Frontiers Media SA |
51 |
71055 |
1393 |
Springer Nature |
31 |
56426 |
1820 |
Elsevier BV |
26 |
40270 |
1549 |
MDPI AG |
22 |
28177 |
1281 |
Springer Science + Business Media |
22 |
30908 |
1405 |
Copernicus GmbH |
13 |
19679 |
1514 |
Nature Publishing Group |
9 |
16514 |
1835 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
8 |
14866 |
1858 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
5 |
4481 |
896 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
5 |
11884 |
2377 |
American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
3373 |
843 |
Informa UK Limited |
4 |
4685 |
1171 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
4 |
6704 |
1676 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
6399 |
2133 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
3158 |
1579 |
American Society of Hematology |
2 |
3040 |
1520 |
BMJ |
2 |
4300 |
2150 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
3401 |
1700 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
4102 |
2051 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
2494 |
2494 |
ASTES Journal |
1 |
114 |
114 |
BioScientifica |
1 |
2422 |
2422 |
EMBO |
1 |
3315 |
3315 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
415 |
415 |
FASEB |
1 |
2738 |
2738 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1418 |
1418 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
1105 |
1105 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
785 |
785 |
MyJove Corporation |
1 |
3150 |
3150 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1274 |
1274 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
1 |
465 |
465 |
Shared Science Publishers OG |
1 |
1190 |
1190 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1950 |
1950 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

15 Oct 2019
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides cost data on APCs paid in 2017 and 2018.
Contact person is Philip Young.
New cost data
The data covers publication fees for 154 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 167 544€ and the average fee is 1 088€.
The following table shows the reported APC expenditures in 2017 and 2018.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
33 |
38270 |
1160 |
MDPI AG |
31 |
27359 |
883 |
Frontiers Media SA |
20 |
25391 |
1270 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
20 |
26053 |
1303 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
11 |
14387 |
1308 |
Elsevier BV |
6 |
5875 |
979 |
AIP Publishing |
3 |
3592 |
1197 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
1619 |
540 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
3 |
3608 |
1203 |
SAGE Publications |
3 |
2643 |
881 |
American Society of Agronomy |
2 |
2093 |
1046 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
2216 |
1108 |
Canadian Center of Science and Education |
2 |
678 |
339 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
1892 |
946 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
887 |
887 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1271 |
1271 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
1271 |
1271 |
BMJ |
1 |
1108 |
1108 |
Center for Transportation Studies |
1 |
636 |
636 |
Clute Institute |
1 |
776 |
776 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
780 |
780 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1271 |
1271 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1042 |
1042 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
573 |
573 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1330 |
1330 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
345 |
345 |
Whioce Publishing Pte Ltd |
1 |
577 |
577 |
Aggregated data
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for Virginia Tech now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

08 Oct 2019
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures for the Université de La Réunion have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 15 articles published at the Université de La Réunion in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 25 594€ and the average fee is 1 706€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data set provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Copernicus GmbH |
4 |
6630 |
1658 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
6330 |
3165 |
Springer Nature |
2 |
2740 |
1370 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
681 |
681 |
Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
1799 |
1799 |
MDPI AG |
1 |
1312 |
1312 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
862 |
862 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1286 |
1286 |
Schweizerbart |
1 |
2318 |
2318 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1637 |
1637 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
