Article Processing Charges
Article Processing Charges
The International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science Applications (IJITCSA) is an Open Access journal accessible for free on the Internet. There will be no university library or individual reader will ever have to buy a subscription or pay any pay-per-view fees to access articles in the electronic version of the journal. However, the online publication process does involve costs including those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving. To cover these costs, the journal depends on Article Process Charges (henceforth: APC), also called Publication Fees. APC are due when a manuscript has been accepted for publication.
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Article Processing Charges (APC) |
US $35.00 |
* APC reductions are given to authors from Low-Income Countries. Please contact the Editor in Chief for further info.
Sources for Article Processing Charges (APC)
Authors of an article are responsible for arranging the payment of APC. Still, that typically does not mean that authors end up paying for the publication of the article. The cost of APC is very often assumed either by the organization funding the research published in the article or by an Open Access Publishing Fund, or by the institution at which the author is employed.
Fair Dealing - Authors and Publisher
When an author submits a manuscript for review, the submitted manuscript should not have been previously published in any form and must not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should also not be submitted to any other journal during the review process. In case the review process at our journal takes much longer than stated and the author wishes to end the review process, he/she should get in contact with the Editorial Assistant of the journal and come to an agreement suitable for both sides after looking at the stage of the manuscript in the review process.
With the APC specified above, the author is given an indication what the APC will be. We charge Publication Fees (APC) but not Submission Fees. This is to the benefit of authors because payments are only due once the author knows the manuscript is accepted. Our editors and reviewers put much effort into dealing with the manuscript and expect the authors to stick to the common plan of publishing the paper which is linked to payments of APC as given above at the end of the review process. The author is not legally bound at this time, but it would be seen as a strong breach of academic conduct to back off from the publication process. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, we will issue an invoice in the Paper Submission and Manuscript Tracking System. This is our legal offer and will state the regular APC of the journal or the reduced APC. The Corresponding Author is expected to arrange payments of the amount stated at this time.
Refund Policy
Once an article has been accepted for publication, any Article Processing Charges on the article become due. The submitting author accepts responsibility for the Article Processing Charges, and Scientific Research Publishing will not issue refunds of any kind except those payments made by mistake or in excess of the amount required.
