What APCs (Article Processing Charge) Cover 

In the traditional subscription-based model, the cost to the publisher to produce each article manuscript is covered by the revenue generated by journal subscriptions. Under Open Access, all the article manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license; therefore, the authors or funding body will pay a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) to offset the costs of all the activities associated with the publication of the article manuscript, such as: 

• Digital tools used to support the manuscript management and review process 

• The typesetting, formatting, and layout of the article manuscript 

• Online hosting 

• The submission of the journal’s content to numerous abstracts, directories, and indexes 

• Third-party software (e.g. plagiarism checks) 

• Editorial support 

• Manuscript tracking 

• Communications 

• Submission guideline checks 

• Communications with authors and reviewers 

• Promotional support and activities 

• Metadata distribution 

• Press releases 

• Promotional communications examples include Web Content, Ads, Print Content and Social media 

All published manuscripts will be freely accessible and therefore are able to be posted and disseminated widely by the authors. 

When/How Payment is Collected 

Payment of the APC (Article Processing Charge) directly to the publisher, by the author or a funding body is not required until AFTER the manuscript has gone through the full double-anonymized peer review process and the Editor(s))-in-chief has decided to accept the manuscript. Please note that there is NO correlation between the intention to pay the APC (Article Processing Charge) by the author and the results of review process or the outcomes/editorial decision. Also please be advised that IABS Publishing cannot schedule the article for publication or publish the article until payment has been received. The APC can only be set and collected by IABS Publishing. 

Authors can either pay the article processing charge themselves or have an outside funding source aid with the payment.