Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 4 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 4 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 319 articles, total expenditure amounts to 664,512€ and the average fee is 2,083€.

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 80 134936 1687
Frontiers Media SA 64 152380 2381
Springer Nature 49 131506 2684
Elsevier BV 30 63811 2127
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 21660 1805
Informa UK Limited 9 25285 2809
Wiley-Blackwell 8 16750 2094
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik 7 700 100
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 6 15419 2570
BMJ 4 10672 2668
American Physical Society (APS) 3 7621 2540
American Society for Microbiology 3 5732 1911
Copernicus GmbH 3 3424 1141
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 3123 1041
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 5515 1838
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 6280 2093
American Meteorological Society 2 3079 1539
AAAS 1 3691 3691
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1250 1250
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 885 885
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2745 2745
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 5226 5226
American Society of Hematology 1 3067 3067
Brill 1 344 344
Caltech Library 1 250 250
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 386 386
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 4611 4611
EDP Sciences 1 800 800
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 981 981
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 2500 2500
IEEE 1 2634 2634
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2500 2500
International Journal of Medical Science and Health Research 1 150 150
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1706 1706
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 3000 3000
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 1729 1729
Mineralogical Society of America 1 3087 3087
Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery 1 960 960
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1950 1950
Royal College of General Practitioners 1 2404 2404
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1360 1360
SAGE Publications 1 3358 3358
Scholink Co, Ltd. 1 280 280
Society for Neuroscience 1 1974 1974
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 1803 1803
University of California Press 1 888 888
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 1 100 100

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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