02 Aug 2022
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 6 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 135 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 283,712€ and the average fee is 2,102€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- ENS de Lyon
- Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
- INSERM
- Université de Nantes
- Université de Poitiers
- Université de Toulon
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 |
34 |
48969 |
1440 |
| Springer Nature |
23 |
60969 |
2651 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
18 |
42037 |
2335 |
| Elsevier BV |
17 |
40554 |
2386 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
7 |
13182 |
1883 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
7258 |
1452 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
3 |
7160 |
2387 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
3 |
8529 |
2843 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
3 |
7958 |
2653 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
8800 |
2933 |
| IOP Publishing |
2 |
3810 |
1905 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
4400 |
2200 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
4637 |
2318 |
| AAAS |
1 |
4500 |
4500 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. |
1 |
425 |
425 |
| American Meteorological Society |
1 |
717 |
717 |
| American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) |
1 |
1487 |
1487 |
| ASTES Journal |
1 |
463 |
463 |
| BMJ |
1 |
2200 |
2200 |
| EMBO |
1 |
4700 |
4700 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1715 |
1715 |
| Inter-Research Science Center |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
| Longdom Group |
1 |
1705 |
1705 |
| MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
836 |
836 |
| Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
4400 |
4400 |
| Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava |
1 |
300 |
300 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
29 Jul 2022
Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The BFH libraries collect data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provide the data sets to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Laura Tobler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 20 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 31,774€ and the average fee is 1,589€.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
9 |
12833 |
1426 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
4 |
8203 |
2051 |
| Academic Journals |
1 |
489 |
489 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
1 |
1741 |
1741 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
901 |
901 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2657 |
2657 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1562 |
1562 |
| Research Publishing International |
1 |
991 |
991 |
| Springer Nature |
1 |
2396 |
2396 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the BFH now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
27 Jul 2022
The University of Freiburg has provided its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
Freiburg University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Nadine Keßler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 456 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 941,561€ and the average fee is 2,065€.
The following table shows the payments Freiburg University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
157 |
337672 |
2151 |
| MDPI AG |
111 |
200740 |
1808 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
67 |
161083 |
2404 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
24 |
48254 |
2011 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
16 |
27935 |
1746 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
15 |
25556 |
1704 |
| Elsevier BV |
12 |
31297 |
2608 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
9 |
24989 |
2777 |
| SAGE Publications |
5 |
6726 |
1345 |
| BMJ |
3 |
6206 |
2069 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
6949 |
2316 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
3 |
5303 |
1768 |
| Canadian Science Publishing |
2 |
3129 |
1565 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
4911 |
2456 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
4251 |
2125 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
5064 |
2532 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
2 |
2408 |
1204 |
| Wildlife Biology |
2 |
1666 |
833 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
3641 |
3641 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
2946 |
2946 |
| BioScientifica |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
| Brill |
1 |
1583 |
1583 |
| Cureus, Inc. |
1 |
306 |
306 |
| EMBO |
1 |
4284 |
4284 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2099 |
2099 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1762 |
1762 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
1 |
1856 |
1856 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. |
1 |
978 |
978 |
| IOP Publishing |
1 |
2202 |
2202 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
3020 |
3020 |
| S. Karger AG |
1 |
2558 |
2558 |
| Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
2255 |
2255 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) |
1 |
2180 |
2180 |
| University of Bern |
1 |
1035 |
1035 |
| University of Zurich |
1 |
1100 |
1100 |
| VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK |
1 |
882 |
882 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
952 |
952 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Freiburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
