How can the researchers from developing countries manage the high Article Processing Charge (APC) for open access journals? Is there any funding agencies available that provide financial support in paying APC?
Researchers from developing countries face always difficulties in managing the high APC for open access journals as universities and higher education institutions do not pay the costs and do not assist them in any way in this process.
Researchers in developing economies most times had to pay for publications from their salaries. But also thanks to journals without APC and /or publication fees, so far your paper meets their standards. But most times these journals are internationally based.
Researchers from developing countries always face with the problem of APC. Sometimes, high Article Processing Charge (APC) affect our research publication. Imagine to pay APC from your own salary. Due to APC problem, we can choose to publish in journal with lowest impact .In addition, funding agencies in developing countries are rare.
Because we are affiliated with universities, we should receive funding from them.
Ahmed E. Radwan Umar Ashraf I totally agreed with you both as the university or the organization itself should bear the cost for publication as we are representing them. But, the real scenario is that we don't have such opportunities within our institution. Often we had to choose a lower impact factor journal as we don't have the money to pay the high publication fee as mentioned by Gratien Twagirayezu.
We can see that developed countries have a number of funders outside the university who provide financial support to bear such research publication fee. But, unfortunately, the developing countries don't have many options like that.
Obafemi Obajemihi I also know that researchers often require to pay the APC from his/her own earnings. Thus, we might have to seek journals without any publication charge.
After reading all of your comments and suggestions, I am listing the following possible solutions:
I am sharing a few links with information discount or waiver for APC:
- https://www.springeropen.com/get-published/article-processing-charges/open-access-waiver-fund
- https://www.mdpi.com/apc
- https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/for-authors/waivers-and-discounts.html
- https://www.elsevier.com/authors/open-access/choice
- https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/pricing
- https://www.research4life.org/partner-resources/apc-waivers/
- https://www.biomedcentral.com/getpublished/article-processing-charges/open-access-waiver-fund
- https://www.hindawi.com/publish-research/authors/waiver-policy/
- https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/open-access/open-access-policies
- https://www.cell.com/heliyon/faq
- https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/charges
- https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/publishing-open-access/
- https://plos.org/publish/fees/#fee-assistance
Mohammed A K Al-Saadi This is a pleasure to know that you find this useful.
The question is: Is it necessary to publish in open access journals?
I do not think so.
the only way to manage these articles is to process an arrangement agreement between these countries in order to lighten the bill, otherwise developing countries will never be able to follow the state of scientific research
Universities even doesn't fund full amount. Best way not to go after OA journal.
However, some universities and research institutes have a funding facility for APC
In Iran, there are no funding sources and because of the bad economic situation, We can not publish OA.
Sir,
As of my knowledge, if we manage to get research projects - from that fund, we can publish OA. If our institution has subscribed to that particular journal, high chances of waiver in APC is possible. I am also actively looking for ways to minimize APC charges, and I will share again if I find some workable solution.
Good OA journals offer a 50% discount and say that "You can pay only 750 $"!
In Iran, the salary of an assistant professor is about less than 400 $/month!
@Nature and Optics Express, and a few other journals for low-GDP countries, including Iran, cover all or part of the waiver, ie all or part of the cost of publishing an article.
For information about these cases, look for the word waive in the same section of APC (article [processing charges])
The only condition is that >all writers< are from low-income countries.
Many thanks dear Abolfazl Jangjoy
Unfortunately, Iran is not in the low-GDP countries!
Hi dear Behdad Arandian
How much would it be nice to get a discount for a magazine that costs $ 2,000 ?!
Here is Iran and the salary of the faculty members is between 500-700 $/month.
Sir,
I found Springer institutional subscription and some other options will allow waiver in APC. I am attaching the link for further reference.
https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/funding/faqs
Hope it would be of some use. If I find any more information, I will answer. Lets cost not be a barrier to our research and professional development.
With regards,
Rajalakshmi. S.A.
The logical way that I can suggest it is that if they invited you, ask them that they give you 100% percen disscount. Sometimes they accept your request. So, try your chance.