Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 16 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 16 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 277 articles, total expenditure amounts to 486,265€ and the average fee is 1,755€. The data also contained 1 BPC record which is 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 104 171123 1645
Frontiers Media SA 35 66801 1909
Springer Nature 26 57226 2201
Elsevier BV 20 27404 1370
Informa UK Limited 13 25480 1960
IEEE 12 19384 1615
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 14391 1599
Wiley-Blackwell 8 19662 2458
Optica Publishing Group 5 10954 2191
Oxford University Press (OUP) 5 13138 2628
Copernicus GmbH 4 8252 2063
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 6075 2025
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 3 1736 579
BMJ 2 5236 2618
Crimson Publishers 2 3298 1649
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 4400 2200
IOP Publishing 2 3440 1720
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2824 1412
Science Publishing Group 2 1548 774
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1141 570
AAAS 1 3960 3960
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 400 400
American Astronomical Society 1 1803 1803
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1198 1198
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2856 2856
American Society for Microbiology 1 1683 1683
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 400 400
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University 1 1190 1190
Juniper Publishers 1 415 415
Lupine Publishers 1 164 164
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 3385 3385
Peertechz Publications Private Limited 1 1387 1387
Pensoft Publishers 1 400 400
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 1 1113 1113
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. 1 400 400
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2000 2000

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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