Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 2 institutions

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Oulu reports its 2022 APC expenditures

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)

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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 Lausanne joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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