Couperin.org provides APC data for the CEA

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

APC expenditures for the CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) 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 87 articles published at the CEA in 2015 and 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 164 275€ and the average fee is 1 888€.

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data set provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

TU Ilmenau reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The TU Ilmenau has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

The University Library of TU Ilmenau is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Dr. Peter Blume.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 19 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 24 177€ and the average fee is 1 272€.

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Ilmenau now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

FWF reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

Contact person is Katharina Rieck.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 834 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1 884 589€ and the average fee is 2 260€.

The following table shows the APC payments the FWF has made to publishers in 2018 (including taxes and discounts).

Please note that the report provided by the FWF also contained a number of articles published under transformative agreements (with calculated cost data). Those records did not become part of the OpenAPC core data file, but were integrated into our Transformative Agreements collection instead. To view summarised cost information for both collections, have a look at our combined treemap visualisation.

In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources. For a full overview of FWF funded articles in 2018 please see https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3047009.

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)