Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 13 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 13 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 790 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,600,110€ and the average fee is 2,025€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • AgroParisTech
  • Université des Antilles
  • Université de Caen Normandie
  • Université de Technologie de Compiègne
  • ENS Paris - Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
  • INRAE - Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement
  • Université de Lorraine
  • MNHN - Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle
  • Université de Picardie Jules Verne
  • Université de Poitiers
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • Université de Toulon
  • Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III - USN (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
Elsevier BV 153 233205 1524
Springer Nature 152 382414 2516
MDPI AG 140 263985 1886
Frontiers Media SA 87 205395 2361
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 34 67206 1977
Wiley-Blackwell 34 82335 2422
Oxford University Press (OUP) 29 79079 2727
American Society for Microbiology 20 48876 2444
Copernicus GmbH 13 24642 1896
Informa UK Limited 13 32915 2532
American Dairy Science Association 12 27298 2275
IEEE 12 16778 1398
AAAS 6 15908 2651
Schweizerbart 6 8893 1482
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 5 13166 2633
Scientific Societies 5 11821 2364
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 4 7842 1961
Canadian Center of Science and Education 4 1724 431
Pensoft Publishers 4 4351 1088
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 3640 1213
International Journal of Science and Research 3 465 155
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 5399 1800
The Royal Society 3 4915 1638
CSIRO Publishing 2 2145 1072
EDP Sciences 2 1810 905
Firenze University Press 2 1600 800
IOP Publishing 2 5412 2706
IOS Press 2 2400 1200
Optica Publishing Group 2 4120 2060
Advances in Weed Science 1 456 456
Aging and Disease 1 1444 1444
AIP Publishing 1 597 597
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1534 1534
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2411 2411
American Society of Hematology 1 769 769
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1699 1699
Berghahn Books 1 1127 1127
BMJ 1 2800 2800
Brill 1 2400 2400
Corpus Publishers 1 397 397
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2901 2901
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1265 1265
International Journal Of Advanced Research 1 109 109
Iris Publishers 1 2114 2114
IWA Publishing 1 1975 1975
John Libbey Eurotext 1 333 333
Korean Society for Stem Cell Research 1 470 470
LIDSEN Publishing Inc 1 120 120
Medknow 1 194 194
MyJove Corporation 1 3691 3691
North Atlantic University Union (NAUN) 1 600 600
PeerJ 1 1113 1113
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 1355 1355
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1118 1118
SAGE Publications 1 1311 1311
Science Publishing Group 1 925 925
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 750 750
Slovenian Association Informatika 1 500 500
Society for Neuroscience 1 2222 2222
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 695 695
University of California Press 1 603 603
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 375 375

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Bern reports partial 2024 APC expenditures

The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the first half of 2024.

The University launched an institutional Open Access Publishing Fund in April 2020 and now kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Nives Korrodi.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 80 articles published in the first half of 2024. Total expenditure amounts to 175,699€ and the average fee is 2,196€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 25 60475 2419
MDPI AG 16 34407 2150
Springer Nature 15 37124 2475
Copernicus GmbH 4 6682 1671
BMJ 3 8357 2786
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 5754 1918
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5063 1688
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1490 745
University of California Press 2 2948 1474
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 2455 2455
American Society for Microbiology 1 2383 2383
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2055 2055
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1629 1629
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1887 1887
PeerJ 1 1879 1879
SAGE Publications 1 1111 1111

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bern 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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University of Linz reports its 2023 APC expenditures

The Johannes Kepler University Linz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2023 period.

The JKU library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing.

Contact Person is Susanne Luger.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 61 articles, total expenditure amounts to 138,071€ and the average fee is 2,263€.

The following table shows the payments the JKU library has made to publishers in 2023 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 35 75726 2164
Springer Nature 7 19458 2780
Frontiers Media SA 5 13406 2681
Elsevier BV 2 4740 2370
Indonesian Mathematical Society 2 703 351
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 5489 2745
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2213 2213
EMBO 1 5760 5760
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 1989 1989
IMR Press 1 2085 2085
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 954 954
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1890 1890
SAGE Publications 1 755 755
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2904 2904

Overview

The following plots provide a detailed overview of all data contributed by the University of Linz up to now:

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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