Fee

Article Publication Charges

IJOCSI publishes all its journals in full open access under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-SA) license. This allows the scientific community and the general public to gain unlimited, free and immediate access to scholarly articles, and to reuse the content freely provided that proper attribution is given to the original authors.

To cover the cost for providing our high-quality publishing service and free access to readers, authors pay a one-time article processing charge (APC) for manuscripts accepted after peer-review. There are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data. Editorial items (Editorials, Corrections, Additions, Retractions, Letters, Comments, etc.) are published free of charge.

APCs cover the following:

  • The editorial procedure, including administration related to peer review, author revisions, and final decision-making. IJOCSI employs in-house staff to manage the majority of this process, leaving editorial board members to make key scientific decisions and allowing them to concentrate on their research. To demonstrate its appreciation of the important work done by reviewers and editorial board members, IJOCSI provides them with APC discounts and waivers. APCs also cover for the administrative work done for rejected articles. 
  • Article production: professional language editing, type-setting, formatting, and production in PDF.
  • Article hosting and dissemination: website maintenance, contact with indexing databases.
  • Journal administration: including managing the journal website and editorial board, and promotion of the journal among the research community.

APC : $ 100

Submission : $ 0

Discounts and Waivers

Members of societies affiliated to the publisher (Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Andalas), and researchers at institutions that are members of the Institutional Open Access Program benefit from a discount.

For journals in fields with low levels of funding, where authors typically do not have funds available, APCs are typically waived and cross-subsidized from fields for which more APC funding is available. For authors from Low and Middle income countries, waivers or discounts may be granted on a case-by-case basis. Applications submitted before article submission are assessed by the Managing Editor based on the quality of the research article and the authors’ ability to pay.