10 Mar 2023
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 2 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 248 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 448,625€ and the average fee is 1,809€. The data also contained one BPC record which is not listed here.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Université de Franche-Comté
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 |
78 |
119685 |
1534 |
Springer Nature |
41 |
93610 |
2283 |
Frontiers Media SA |
40 |
85212 |
2130 |
Elsevier BV |
25 |
40702 |
1628 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
13 |
23388 |
1799 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
7 |
16699 |
2386 |
American Society for Microbiology |
6 |
6075 |
1012 |
Optica Publishing Group |
5 |
7326 |
1465 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
5 |
9223 |
1845 |
Informa UK Limited |
4 |
9499 |
2375 |
Copernicus GmbH |
3 |
5580 |
1860 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
2 |
3250 |
1625 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
2743 |
1371 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
987 |
987 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
3409 |
3409 |
American Society of Hematology |
1 |
2731 |
2731 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
681 |
681 |
Fortune Journals |
1 |
588 |
588 |
IEEE |
1 |
720 |
720 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
3239 |
3239 |
IMR Press |
1 |
1721 |
1721 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
1819 |
1819 |
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. |
1 |
48 |
48 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1388 |
1388 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
1 |
1430 |
1430 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1089 |
1089 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
4577 |
4577 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
1 |
528 |
528 |
The Electromagnetics Academy |
1 |
329 |
329 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
350 |
350 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

10 Mar 2023
The University of Oulu has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides additional data for the 2022 period.
The Oulu University Library collects data on institutional APC expenditures.
Contact Person is Tiina Jounio.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 24 articles, total expenditure amounts to 43,367€ and the average fee is 1,807€.
The following table shows the payments the Oulu University Library has made to publishers since its last report.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
10 |
14388 |
1439 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
8312 |
2771 |
Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
3167 |
1584 |
Springer Nature |
2 |
4139 |
2070 |
CAD Solutions, LLC |
1 |
297 |
297 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1780 |
1780 |
Optica Publishing Group |
1 |
2056 |
2056 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1898 |
1898 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
2791 |
2791 |
University of California Press |
1 |
1397 |
1397 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
3140 |
3140 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oulu now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

09 Mar 2023
We welcome the University of Lausanne (UNIL) as new contributing institution!
UNIL operates a dedicated Gold OA publication fund. An initial data set on APC expenditures for 2022 has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Dr. Micaela Crespo Quesada.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 160 articles published in 2022, total expenditure amounts to 301,621€ and the average fee is 1,885€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
74 |
144612 |
1954 |
MDPI AG |
36 |
65812 |
1828 |
Springer Nature |
21 |
41252 |
1964 |
BMJ |
5 |
8444 |
1689 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
3 |
5580 |
1860 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
5168 |
1723 |
American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
4185 |
2093 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
3085 |
1542 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
2482 |
1241 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
2578 |
1289 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
2755 |
1377 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1946 |
1946 |
BioScientifica |
1 |
1971 |
1971 |
GeoScienceWorld |
1 |
2016 |
2016 |
IMR Press |
1 |
2219 |
2219 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2293 |
2293 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
2043 |
2043 |
Open Library of the Humanities |
1 |
676 |
676 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
2502 |
2502 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
