Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 17 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 17 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with four institutions 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 673 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,435,827€ and the average fee is 2,133€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Ecole polytechnique (new)
  • Université de Picardie Jules Verne (new)
  • Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (new)
  • CentraleSupélec (new)
  • Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
  • Institut Pasteur
  • Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Université de Nantes
  • Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Université Evry Val-d’Essonne
  • Université de Côte d’Azur
  • Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
  • Université d’Angers

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 142 214028 1507
Springer Nature 112 299551 2675
Frontiers Media SA 74 165670 2239
Elsevier BV 67 169982 2537
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 41 84738 2067
Oxford University Press (OUP) 39 105930 2716
Copernicus GmbH 25 43138 1726
American Society for Microbiology 20 36103 1805
Wiley-Blackwell 20 51220 2561
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 11 24326 2211
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 9 19491 2166
Optica Publishing Group 9 14371 1597
AAAS 8 26065 3258
IEEE 8 12197 1525
IOP Publishing 8 15661 1958
American Physical Society (APS) 6 8048 1341
BMJ 6 11640 1940
Informa UK Limited 6 11907 1984
American Chemical Society (ACS) 5 10152 2030
JMIR Publications Inc. 5 8902 1780
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 4 4783 1196
EMBO 4 18292 4573
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 8940 2235
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 4 4478 1120
SAGE Publications 3 5782 1927
The Royal Society 3 6120 2040
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2 5499 2749
Microbiology Society 2 3545 1772
The Company of Biologists 2 4674 2337
American Astronomical Society 1 4959 4959
American Meteorological Society 1 932 932
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 1 1658 1658
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 1 1730 1730
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 1 906 906
Co-Action Publishing 1 1840 1840
EDP Sciences 1 500 500
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1154 1154
Future Medicine Ltd 1 2023 2023
Gavin 1 299 299
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 397 397
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2802 2802
Ital Publication 1 515 515
Korean Society for Internet Information (KSII) 1 453 453
OpenEdition 1 170 170
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2348 2348
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 4771 4771
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 1 3000 3000
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 1 840 840
Research Desk Inc 1 512 512
Rockefeller University Press 1 4121 4121
Spandidos Publications 1 2500 2500
Trade Science Inc. 1 519 519
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd 1 1647 1647

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Turku reports 2021 and 2022 APC expenditures

The University of Turku has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides cost data on APCs paid between September 2021 and April 2022.

The data has been collected by Turku University Library, contact person is Anna-Kaarina Linna.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 85 articles, total expenditure amounts to 185 775€ and the average fee is 2 186€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 20 50391 2520
MDPI AG 17 30761 1809
Springer Nature 14 30550 2182
Elsevier BV 7 17080 2440
American Society for Microbiology 4 9746 2437
Informa UK Limited 4 6659 1665
Wiley-Blackwell 3 11608 3869
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 5458 2729
The Royal Society 2 4570 2285
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 4514 4514
Barber 1 612 612
Institute of Experimental Botany 1 350 350
IOP Publishing 1 2004 2004
Oekom Publishers GmbH 1 496 496
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1628 1628
S. Karger AG 1 1514 1514
SAGE Publications 1 1092 1092
Science Publishing Group 1 879 879
The Company of Biologists 1 1570 1570
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2480 2480
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 1 1815 1815

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Turku 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 Bern reports partial 2022 APC expenditures

The University of Bern has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the first half of 2022.

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 83 articles published in the first half of 2022. Total expenditure amounts to 155,933€ and the average fee is 1,879€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 35 67291 1923
MDPI AG 19 35488 1868
Springer Nature 6 12290 2048
BMJ 5 9352 1870
Wiley-Blackwell 4 7821 1955
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 5100 1700
Quintessenz 2 2659 1330
American Astronomical Society 1 2210 2210
American Dairy Science Association 1 966 966
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 2152 2152
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2439 2439
Informa UK Limited 1 1166 1166
IOP Publishing 1 2084 2084
Microbiology Society 1 1944 1944
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2040 2040
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 931 931

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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