Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 8 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 8 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 271 articles, total expenditure amounts to 528,942€ and the average fee is 1,952€.

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 68 115765 1702
Springer Nature 42 104487 2488
Frontiers Media SA 34 65367 1923
Elsevier BV 22 32076 1458
Informa UK Limited 12 25770 2148
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 9 15971 1775
Optica Publishing Group 8 12585 1573
Wiley-Blackwell 8 15741 1968
Copernicus GmbH 5 8928 1786
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 5 13234 2647
American Chemical Society (ACS) 4 10402 2600
BMJ 4 10641 2660
IEEE 4 6431 1608
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 9130 2282
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 8245 2061
AAAS 3 13063 4354
EDP Sciences 3 988 329
IOP Publishing 3 6636 2212
The Company of Biologists 2 6000 3000
Academic Journals 1 536 536
ALTEX Edition 1 2000 2000
AME Publishing Company 1 1277 1277
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 3086 3086
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 4792 4792
American Society for Microbiology 1 1078 1078
American Society of Hematology 1 3973 3973
American Society of Parasitologists 1 1115 1115
Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) 1 1126 1126
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. 1 2699 2699
Biomedical Research Network, LLC 1 1336 1336
Cognizant, LLC 1 177 177
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1600 1600
Gavin Publishers 1 1461 1461
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 2064 2064
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 2578 2578
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 3500 3500
Microbiology Society 1 1800 1800
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1819 1819
Redfame Publishing 1 288 288
Remedy Publications 1 1830 1830
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2155 2155
SAGE Publications 1 571 571
Sciedu Press 1 711 711
Scientific Archives LLC 1 1134 1134
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 276 276
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2500 2500

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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