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  Comparison of BioMed Central's Article Processing Charges with those of other publishers

BioMed Central's standard Article Processing Charge (APC) is £850— see our Article Processing Charge FAQ for full details. BioMed Central's APCs compare very favorably with those of other publishers, as shown below:

Publisher/Journal
Article Processing Charge
$US equivalent
Submission fee?
Immediately available through PubMed Central? Open access license allowing redistribution and reuse?
BioMed Central          
Typical BioMed Central journal
£850-£950
~$1700-$1900
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Journal of Medical Case Reports
£250
~$500
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American Chemical Society
   
ACS AuthorChoice
$3000 discounts for ACS members and researchers at subscribing institutions
$3000
-
No yes
(excludes commercial reuse)
American Society for Clinical Investigation
   
Journal of Clinical Investigation
~$2500
(depends on word and figure count)
~$2500
(depends on word and figure count)
$70
American Physiological Society
   
Author Choice program
$2000 + page and color charges
$2000
+ page and color charges
-

(if deposited by author)
Biological Procedures Online
   
Biological Procedures Online
$1250
$1250
-
Blackwell Publishing
   
Online Open
£1300
$2600
-
BMJ Publishing Group
   
'Unlocked' program - Main journals
£1700
$3145
-

'Unlocked' program - Specialist journals
£1200
$2220
-

Cambridge University Press
   
Cambridge Open Option
£1500
(+ color charges for some journals)
$2700
(+ color charges for some journals)
-
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(excludes commercial reuse)
Company of Biologists
   
Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology
£1586
~$3100
-
Elsevier
   
Sponsored Article program
$3000
+ color charges
$3000
+ color charges
-

Wellcome Trust Subsidized Manuscript option

This option is available only to authors funded by the Wellcome Trust, and applies only to the manuscript version of the article - it does not provide open access to the final published version

Cell Press titles
$5000
+ color charges
$5000
+ color charges
-
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The Lancet

£400
per page + color charges

£400
per page + color charges

-
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All other titles

$3000
+ color charges


$3000
+ color charges

-
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Hindawi
   
Typical open access journal

€400-€1000
~$600-$1500
-
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John Wiley
   
'Funded access' service
£1530
$3000
-
Journal of Medical Internet Research
   
Journal of Medical Internet Research
(PDFs available only to paid members)
$1500
+ optional $350 fast track fee
$1500
+ optional $350 fast track fee
$90
(excludes PDFs)
Journal of Neuroscience
   
Journal of Neuroscience
$850 publication fee + $2500 open access fee +$1000 per color figure
$850 publication fee
+ $2500 open access fee +$1000 per color figure
$100 cross cross
National Academy of Sciences
   
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
$1200
+ page and color charges
$1200
+ page and color charges
-
Nature Publishing Group
   
Molecular Systems Biology
£1700
$3000
-
British Journal of Pharmacology
£1250
$2500
-


The EMBO Journal
£1350
$2540
-
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EMBO Reports
£1350
$2540
-
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Oxford University Press
   
Nucleic Acids Research
£1370
+ page charges from tenth page
$2670
+ page charges from tenth page
-

(excludes commercial reuse)
Oxford Open journals
£1500
(+ color charges for some journals)
$2800
(+ color charges for some journals)
-

(excludes commercial reuse)
Public Library of Science
   
PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine
$2850
$2850
-
PLoS Pathogens, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
$2200
$2200
-
PLoS One
$1300
$1300
-
Royal Society
   
Proceedings A, Phil Trans A and Notes and Records (EXiS Open Choice)
First 10 pages: £150 per journal page. Additional pages: £50 per journal page.
+ color charges
~$2500
+ color charges
-
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Proceedings B, Phil Trans B, Biology Letters and Interface(EXiS Open Choice)
First 6 pages: £225 per journal page. Additional pages: £50 per journal page.
+ color charges
~$3000
+ color charges
-
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Royal Society of Chemistry
   
Open Science: Communications
£1000
~$1950

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Open Science: Primary paper
£1600
~$3100

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Open Science: Review
£2500
~$4900

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Sage
   
Sage Open
£1600
$3000
-

(excludes commercial reuse)
Springer
   
All journals (OpenChoice)
$3000
$3000
-

(excludes commercial reuse)
Taylor & Francis
   
iOpenAccess
$3250
$3250
-

(excludes derivative works and commercial reuse)

Notes

  • Many publishers (including BioMed Central) offer discounts to institutional subscribers / members.
  • The prices listed in this table were last updated in January 2008. Please contact info@biomedcentral.com with any updates or corrections.
  • Some open access journals (including several from BioMed Central) charge no article processing charges to authors, but cover their costs in other ways - e.g. some are directly supported by a host institution. The table above lists only journals where article processing charges are the primary form of support.
  • The column headed "Open access license allowing redistribution and reuse?" indicates whether a Creative Commons or similar license is used, granting universal rights of redistribution and reuse for the official final version of the article.

 



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