Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 11 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 11 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with one institution 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 371 articles, total expenditure amounts to 678,359€ and the average fee is 1,828€. The data also contained 8 BPC records which are not listed here.

The data originates from the following institutions:

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 125 200616 1605
Springer Nature 53 128023 2416
Frontiers Media SA 52 129279 2486
Elsevier BV 42 65289 1554
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 22764 1751
Copernicus GmbH 9 11742 1305
Oxford University Press (OUP) 9 23742 2638
Wiley-Blackwell 9 18492 2055
American Society for Microbiology 5 8659 1732
IEEE 5 7270 1454
Informa UK Limited 4 4541 1135
Société zoologique de France 4 645 161
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 3832 1277
IOP Publishing 3 4860 1620
Scientific Societies 3 3744 1248
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 2603 1302
American Physical Society (APS) 2 5019 2509
BMJ 2 3150 1575
The Science and Information Organization 2 935 467
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1108 1108
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 887 887
American Society for Nutrition 1 1459 1459
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1 2412 2412
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 1426 1426
David Publishing Company 1 693 693
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2617 2617
Emerald 1 1604 1604
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 1 2100 2100
Hilaris 1 2019 2019
IMR Press 1 519 519
Institute of Agrophysics Polish Academy of Sciences 1 800 800
International Information and Engineering Technology Association 1 273 273
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) 1 975 975
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1500 1500
Pensoft Publishers 1 4400 4400
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2284 2284
Research Outreach 1 1446 1446
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 905 905
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 592 592
sPage.direcT 1 1153 1153
The Royal Society 1 710 710
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 405 405
University of Bern 1 870 870

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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