Article Processing Charges Waiver Policy

Publication Charge Policy
Being an open access publisher, SLOAP journals offer universal free access to all the published articles, as it aims not to restrict the readership and to disseminate knowledge without any constraints. To support the open access initiative APC is imposed for manuscript submission instead of charging any fee to the users to read the published content. We do not imply any submission charges but apply only processing charges. The journals offset all production costs through article processing charges which is the only source of finance for the production cost of the journal, for hosting the website, publishing articles online and copy-editing.

For Authors
The journals aim to encourage and enable authors from all countries to share their scientific knowledge with others and learn from others. To remove financial constraints as a barrier to sharing and learning, especially for authors from low and lower-middle-income economies, the listed journals has formulated some relaxation in Article Publication Charges. The groups of countries listed receive relaxation which were identified based on the classification of countries by World Bank (Gross national income and Gross national income per capita figures) and United Nations (United Nations least developed country list and Human Development Index). We offer a discount max 50% for countries with lower-middle-income.

For Reviewer
For every manuscript reviewed by the reviewer 20% waiver will be given for one manuscript submitted by the reviewer as the first author or corresponding author, for publication in journals.

For Editors
Editors and Members of the Editorial Board of our journal can publish any number of articles. The submissions of all the manuscript to the respective journal from Editorial Board Members will be free of any publication charges.