Couperin.org provides additional APC data for the CNRS

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

Additional APC expenditures by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin for the CNRS covers publication fees for 1,077 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 1 909 453€ and the average fee is 1 773€.

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 351 676640 1928
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 117 173051 1479
Frontiers Media SA 87 149330 1716
Elsevier BV 72 153386 2130
Copernicus GmbH 70 110985 1586
MDPI AG 49 56546 1154
Oxford University Press (OUP) 42 81408 1938
Optical Society of America (OSA) 31 50230 1620
Wiley-Blackwell 26 58472 2249
IOP Publishing 22 38429 1747
Impact Journals, LLC 17 45281 2664
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 12 22888 1907
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 12 25906 2159
Informa UK Limited 10 9616 962
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 10 8743 874
PeerJ 9 8876 986
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 8 21956 2745
American Society for Microbiology 8 9339 1167
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 8 14120 1765
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 8 18838 2355
The Royal Society 7 13844 1978
EDP Sciences 6 3800 633
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 6 8783 1464
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 6 4159 693
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 6 6500 1083
AIP Publishing 5 8647 1729
American Chemical Society (ACS) 5 8839 1768
The Company of Biologists 5 13388 2678
American Meteorological Society 4 13641 3410
American Physical Society (APS) 4 9412 2353
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 4 6550 1638
EMBO 4 19740 4935
Pensoft Publishers 4 1377 344
Society for Neuroscience 4 7926 1981
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 3 2121 707
Genetics Society of America 2 3896 1948
Geological Society of America 2 4794 2397
Inter-Research Science Center 2 1800 900
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3864 1932
MyJove Corporation 2 6252 3126
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3018 1509
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 2 1240 620
Shared Science Publishers OG 2 1701 851
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 2 1704 852
Academic Journals 1 463 463
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 3150 3150
American Psychological Association (APA) 1 2700 2700
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 1 1800 1800
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 1 1436 1436
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 1 704 704
Cogitatio 1 500 500
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 2500 2500
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 560 560
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1500 1500
Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology 1 484 484
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 883 883
Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 200 200
Papers in Physics 1 193 193
Science Publishing Group 1 200 200
The Electrochemical Society 1 670 670
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 475 475

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Leipzig University reports its 2018 APC expenditures

Leipzig University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

Leipzig University Library 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. Astrid Vieler.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 151 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 223 071€ and the average fee is 1 477€.

The following table shows the payments Leipzig University Library has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 60 97684 1628
Frontiers Media SA 19 32307 1700
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 18 26568 1476
MDPI AG 16 16349 1022
Wiley-Blackwell 7 7704 1101
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 6 11315 1886
S. Karger AG 3 3542 1181
BMJ 2 3616 1808
Copernicus GmbH 2 2631 1316
Elsevier BV 2 1024 512
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3615 1808
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 3076 1538
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3244 1622
AIP Publishing 1 1375 1375
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1251 1251
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 1 988 988
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1862 1862
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 517 517
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 952 952
PeerJ 1 963 963
Pensoft Publishers 1 475 475
University of California Press 1 943 943

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Leipzig 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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Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2018 period.

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

Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 117 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 192 418€ and the average fee is 1 645€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 35 69093 1974
Springer Nature 19 28203 1484
MDPI AG 18 22927 1274
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 17 27244 1603
Informa UK Limited 6 9901 1650
Copernicus GmbH 5 8043 1609
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 6724 1681
Elsevier BV 3 5235 1745
ALTEX Edition 1 1999 1999
American Society for Microbiology 1 759 759
Genetics Society of America 1 1925 1925
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1917 1917
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1830 1830
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 700 700
SAGE Publications 1 658 658
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 1 1999 1999
The Korean Society of Veterinary Science (KAMJE) 1 1630 1630
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 1630 1630

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the FU Berlin 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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