Publisher/Journal |
Article Processing Charge
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Submission fee? |
Immediately
available
through PubMed
Central? |
Open
access license
allowing redistribution
and reuse? |
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| BioMed Central |
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| Typical
BioMed Central journal |
£925-£1025 |
~$1400-$1550 |
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| American Chemical
Society |
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| ACS
AuthorChoice |
$3000
discounts for ACS members and researchers at subscribing institutions
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$3000
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
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| American Society
for Clinical Investigation |
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| Journal
of Clinical Investigation |
~$2500
(depends on word and figure count) |
~$2500
(depends on word and figure count) |
$70 |
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| American Physiological Society |
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| Author Choice program |
($3000 for reviews)
+ page and color charges
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($3000 for reviews)
+ page and color charges |
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(if deposited by author) |
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| Blackwell Publishing
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| Online
Open |
$3000
+ charges for color images and datasets
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$3000
+ charges for color images and datasets
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| BMJ Publishing
Group |
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| 'Unlocked'
program - BMJ (flagship journal) |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
| 'Unlocked'
program - BMJ Unlocked |
£1700 |
$3145 |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
| BRILL |
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| BrillOpen |
€2,000 |
$3000 (only in the Americas) |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
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| Cambridge University Press |
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| Cambridge
Open Option |
£1500
(+ color charges for
some journals) |
$2700
(+ color charges for some
journals) |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
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| Co-Action Publishing |
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| Co-Action Publishing |
€350 - €950 |
$530 - $1435 |
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| Company of Biologists
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| Development, Journal of Cell Science,
Journal of Experimental Biology |
£1586 |
~$2560 |
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| Elsevier |
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| Sponsored
Article program |
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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
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| Cell
Press titles |
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| The
Lancet |
£400
per page + color charges
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~$560 per page + color charges
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| All
other titles |
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| Hindawi |
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Typical
open access journal
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€400-€1000 |
~$600-$1500 |
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| John Wiley |
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| Online
Open |
$3000
+ charges for color images and datasets
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$3000
+ charges for color images and datasets
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| Journal of Medical
Internet Research |
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Journal
of Medical Internet Research
(PDFs available
only to paid members) |
$1500
+ optional $350 fast track
fee |
$1500
+ optional $350 fast track
fee |
$90 |
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(excludes PDFs) |
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| Journal of Neuroscience |
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Journal
of Neuroscience
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$850 publication fee + $2500 open access fee +$1000 per color figure |
$850 publication fee
+ $2500 open access fee +$1000 per color figure |
$100 |
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| National Academy
of Sciences |
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| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) |
$1200
+ page and color charges |
$1200
+ page and color charges |
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| Nature Publishing
Group |
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| Molecular
Systems Biology |
£2,100
+ color charges |
~$3,500
+ color charges |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
| The EMBO
Journal |
£1485
+ color charges |
~$2795
+ color charges |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
| EMBO Reports |
£1485
+ color charges |
$2795
+ color charges |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
| Nature Communications |
€3,570 |
$5,000 |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
| Selected journals published by NPG |
£2000
+ color charges |
~$3000
+ color charges |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
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| Oxford University Press |
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Nucleic
Acids Research
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£1420
+ page charges from tenth page |
$2770
+ page charges from tenth page |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
Oxford Open journals
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£1700
(+ color charges for some
journals) |
$3000
(+ color charges for some
journals) |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
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| Public Library
of Science |
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| PLoS
Biology, PLoS
Medicine |
$2850 |
$2850 |
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| PLoS
Pathogens, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
$2200 |
$2200 |
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| PLoS
One |
$1300 |
$1300 |
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| Royal Society |
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| Research articles and Reviews |
£2600 |
$4420
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| Shorter format papers (e.g. in Biology Letters and Notes and Records) |
£1500
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| Royal Society of
Chemistry |
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| Open
Science: Communications |
£1000
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~$1450
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| Open
Science: Primary paper |
£1600
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~$2330
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| Open
Science: Review |
£2500
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~$3640
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| Sage |
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| Sage Open |
£1600 |
$3000 |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
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| Springer |
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| All journals (OpenChoice) |
$3000 |
$3000 |
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(excludes commercial reuse) |
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| Taylor & Francis |
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| iOpenAccess |
$3250 |
$3250 |
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(excludes derivative works and commercial reuse) |
Comparison
of BioMed Central's Article Processing Charges with those of other publishers