Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 4 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 4 different institutions 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 covers publication fees for 1,382 articles, total expenditure amounts to 3,228,854€ and the average fee is 2,336€. The data also contained 1 BPC record which is not listed here.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
  • EURECOM
  • INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
  • Université Paris Cité

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 224 702977 3138
MDPI AG 217 361418 1666
Frontiers Media SA 175 408323 2333
Elsevier BV 163 367228 2253
Copernicus GmbH 93 159502 1715
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 61 144021 2361
Wiley-Blackwell 55 147092 2674
Oxford University Press (OUP) 51 138792 2721
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 30 83094 2770
American Astronomical Society 27 43610 1615
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 25 62918 2517
American Physical Society (APS) 25 72892 2916
American Chemical Society (ACS) 23 56655 2463
Optica Publishing Group 19 41289 2173
IEEE 17 28949 1703
AAAS 16 62010 3876
Informa UK Limited 15 31546 2103
IOP Publishing 13 26626 2048
American Society for Microbiology 12 28692 2391
AIP Publishing 10 29103 2910
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 10 15375 1537
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 9 20040 2227
American Meteorological Society 8 14198 1775
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 7 31560 4509
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 6 13350 2225
EDP Sciences 5 4530 906
The Royal Society 5 9235 1847
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 4 6395 1599
EMBO 4 19000 4750
Life Science Alliance, LLC 4 11902 2976
The Company of Biologists 4 14464 3616
SAGE Publications 3 6718 2239
Society for Neuroscience 3 6455 2152
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 2 2842 1421
F1000 Research, Ltd. 2 2209 1104
Geological Society of America 2 5186 2593
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 4076 2038
Pensoft Publishers 2 957 478
Project Muse 2 3547 1774
Research Desk Inc 2 2161 1081
Rockefeller University Press 2 6629 3315
Royal College of Psychiatrists 2 4367 2183
Scientific Archives LLC 2 1020 510
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 2 1383 691
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1363 1363
BMJ 1 2200 2200
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 2002 2002
Fortune Journals 1 875 875
GeoScienceWorld 1 2163 2163
Human Kinetics 1 2388 2388
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2000 2000
Inter-Research Science Center 1 1800 1800
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 502 502
Journal of Biological Methods 1 1887 1887
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 2838 2838
Microbiology Society 1 1800 1800
Open Library of the Humanities 1 522 522
Organization for Human Brain Mapping 1 743 743
Scholink Co, Ltd. 1 293 293
Schweizerbart 1 690 690
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 1 450 450

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 5 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 5 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 81 articles, total expenditure amounts to 163,501€ and the average fee is 2,019€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • ANSM - Agence Nationale de Sécurité des Médicaments et des produits de santé
  • Université Côte d’Azur - UCA
  • IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer
  • IMT Atlantique Bretagne - Pays de la Loire
  • Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne - Paris XII (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 14 26645 1903
Elsevier BV 13 17905 1377
Frontiers Media SA 12 32431 2703
Springer Nature 10 21812 2181
IEEE 7 9877 1411
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 6180 2060
American Medical Association (AMA) 2 7440 3720
Copernicus GmbH 2 2293 1146
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 6638 3319
Wiley-Blackwell 2 7310 3655
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1443 1443
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1855 1855
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 1 3465 3465
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 1 578 578
BMJ 1 1855 1855
Informa UK Limited 1 1695 1695
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2000 2000
IOP Publishing 1 1945 1945
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1673 1673
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2000 2000
Optica Publishing Group 1 2007 2007
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2672 2672
SAGE Publications 1 840 840
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 943 943

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Würzburg reports its 2023 APC expenditures

The University of Würzburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.

Würzburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Claudia Schober.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 282 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 749 971€ and the average fee is 2 659€.

The following table shows the payments Würzburg University Library has made to publishers in 2023.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 76 227788 2997
MDPI AG 58 140073 2415
Frontiers Media SA 53 137172 2588
Elsevier BV 30 83985 2800
Wiley-Blackwell 21 47443 2259
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 18934 2367
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 6 16578 2763
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 11562 2891
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5172 1724
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 3691 1846
American Society for Microbiology 2 8206 4103
Informa UK Limited 2 4361 2181
Optica Publishing Group 2 4441 2221
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 6642 3321
The Royal Society 2 3312 1656
AIP Publishing 1 1642 1642
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1482 1482
BMJ 1 7859 7859
Copernicus GmbH 1 143 143
EMBO 1 4950 4950
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1476 1476
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 2063 2063
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2490 2490
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 4247 4247
Society for Neuroscience 1 3192 3192
University of California Press 1 1064 1064

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Würzburg 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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