I was wondering about possible recommendations on ways to fund-raise for research whether it be data-collection fees or publishing fees. It often seems like researchers from non-western countries are in an unfavorable position regarding their ability to finance their projects without relying on their mother institutions and there doesn't seem to be much information available online on other methods of fund-raising. Thanks in advance.
At some point, everyone has incurred some out-of-pocket expense to publish their research if the article processing charge (APC) is not too high. This depends on the journal.
However, if the APC is too high compared to your personal income, and your institution will not pay APC for you, then don't pay from your personal money. Find a closed-access journal that does not charge APC to publish your work
Hello Milica Vdovic
I agree with Dr Peterson K. Ozili that the alternative is to find a journal (of "subscription" type). That is what I do myself, usually. These journals often may have a higher prestige, have higher impact factor but may take longer to get the review returned to you.
Institute do not have any provision to support you financially to get research published one need to pay oneself with the hope that in future one effort will get rewarded in terms of consultancy, advisory services etc.
Definitely don't pay yourself.
If you don't have funds available for APCs, you have a couple of options:
Diamond Open Access Journals: They are OA, but don't charge. Unfortunately, most don't do much promotion or have huge impact, so dissemination is largely on the authors. You can find them by simply googleing for Diamond Open Access Journals + Field of interest, or use DOAJ and click "no fees": https://doaj.org/
Alternatively, find a paywalled journal that allows public post-prints. Hybrid journals (i.e. those which have both pay wall and OA options) are your best bet for having these options. Sharing self-formatted post-prints via servers like arXiv, PsyArXiv etc. has become quite common and many journals allow it. You can check post-print policies of journals by either reading through their policies directly, or through Sherpa Romeo: https://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ - just put in the name of the journal and they will tell you what you can post.
Lastly (and very specific), any publication related to EU funded projects can be published for free through Open Research Europe: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/
Hope that helps :)
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