Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 12 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 12 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 905 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,729,110€ and the average fee is 1,911€. The data also contained 1 BPC record which is not listed here.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • AgroParisTech
  • Université d’Angers
  • ANSM
  • Université de Caen Normandie
  • Ecole centrale de Lyon
  • INRAE
  • IRSN
  • Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais - LNE
  • Université de Rennes 1
  • Université de Rennes 2
  • Université de La Réunion
  • Université de Bretagne Occidentale

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 242 396402 1638
Elsevier BV 159 250877 1578
Frontiers Media SA 133 306025 2301
Springer Nature 130 303399 2334
Wiley-Blackwell 51 119058 2334
Oxford University Press (OUP) 25 53298 2132
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 25 48210 1928
Copernicus GmbH 16 23961 1498
Informa UK Limited 15 34912 2327
IEEE 10 15320 1532
Scientific Societies 7 14394 2056
American Chemical Society (ACS) 5 13024 2605
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 5 9632 1926
American Society for Microbiology 5 13071 2614
American Dairy Science Association 4 3681 920
BMJ 4 10300 2575
EDP Sciences 4 2800 700
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 9199 2300
The Royal Society 4 7010 1752
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 3 6615 2205
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 3 7794 2598
CSIRO Publishing 3 3483 1161
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 6889 2296
PeerJ 3 3969 1323
Pensoft Publishers 3 1945 648
AAAS 2 7015 3508
American Society for Nutrition 2 5171 2586
IGI Global 2 2154 1077
IOP Publishing 2 3864 1932
Optica Publishing Group 2 3831 1916
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 2 1738 869
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 2 747 374
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1289 645
Allied Business Academies 1 1449 1449
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 2527 2527
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2660 2660
American Physiological Society 1 888 888
American Vacuum Society 1 2206 2206
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 380 380
CIRAD (Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique Pour le Developpement) 1 1339 1339
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2913 2913
EMBO 1 4800 4800
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 965 965
Firenze University Press 1 900 900
Gavin Publishers 1 1582 1582
Heighten Science Publications Corporation 1 1356 1356
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 2883 2883
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 3215 3215
Polish Academy of Sciences 1 172 172
Portland Press Ltd. 1 2366 2366
Quintessenz 1 1250 1250
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1016 1016
SAGE Publications 1 709 709
The Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology and The Korean Academy of Pediatric Al 1 470 470
The Science and Information Organization 1 486 486
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 1500 1500

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences reports 2023 data

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides cost data for the 2023 period.

The ZHAW library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing, and kindly provides data on funded articles and books to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Cara Kirschner.

Cost Data

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 35 articles, total expenditure amounts to 62 644€ and the average fee is 1 790€. The contribution also contains BPC data for 1 OA book which is not shown here.

The following table provides an overview of the new APC data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 15 24528 1635
Frontiers Media SA 9 18710 2079
Springer Nature 7 14976 2139
Pensoft Publishers 3 1975 658
Elsevier BV 1 2456 2456

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ZHAW 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 Liège reports its 2022 APC and BPC expenditures

The University of Liège has provided both APC and BPC expenditures for the 2022 period.

Liège University Library collects data on institutional APC and BPC expenditures and kindly provides these data sets to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Myriam Bastin.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 238 articles, total expenditure amounts to 462,029€ and the average fee is 1,941€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 85 145911 1717
Frontiers Media SA 36 94993 2639
Springer Nature 23 52658 2289
Elsevier BV 11 19758 1796
Informa UK Limited 8 18907 2363
Wiley-Blackwell 8 20622 2578
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 12827 1832
Copernicus GmbH 4 3531 883
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 11014 2754
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 4 3068 767
American Society for Microbiology 3 7738 2579
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 3 1806 602
American Dairy Science Association 2 2409 1205
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 6234 3117
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) 2 812 406
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3749 1874
Microbiology Society 2 2812 1406
Academy of Science of South Africa 1 426 426
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4625 4625
American Astronomical Society 1 2813 2813
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1192 1192
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 300 300
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2416 2416
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 4030 4030
American Thoracic Society 1 1850 1850
BMJ 1 2332 2332
Bonoi Science Advancement and Education LLC 1 180 180
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2521 2521
Cogitatio 1 900 900
EMBO 1 5830 5830
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 1 525 525
Gavin Publishers 1 1549 1549
Institute of Hematology, Catholic University 1 318 318
Institute of Research and Community Services Diponegoro University (LPPM UNDIP) 1 294 294
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University 1 1051 1051
IOP Publishing 1 678 678
Meddocs 1 1483 1483
MIT Press - Journals 1 2302 2302
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 2583 2583
Optica Publishing Group 1 1983 1983
PeerJ 1 750 750
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 4981 4981
Remedy Publications 1 888 888
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2071 2071
Scientific Scholar 1 170 170
ScopeMed 1 367 367
University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 1 318 318
Veterinary World 1 835 835
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 615 615

Overview

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