Publishing fees and charges
Publishers may charge fees for publishing scholarly work, including open access. Options may be available to avoid these fees or have the costs covered.
Article processing charges
An article processing charge (APC) is a fee paid to a publisher to make an article immediately available and openly accessible through the publisher's open access pathway.
APCs support a publishing model where authors pay the publication costs so readers can access articles for free instead of paying via subscriptions.
The University of Queensland has several Open access publishing (Read and Publish) agreements with publishers that cover the APC costs, or provide a discount for APC costs, for UQ corresponding authors.
Publishing your work open access provides guidance on how to make your work open access and avoid paying an APC.
Other publishing fees
Journals may have other fees, outside of APCs such as:
- submission fees
- page fees
- colour fees
- fast-track (rapid review) options.
Make sure to check if the journal will require authors to pay any of these fees.
These fees may not be covered under the UQ Open access publishing agreements (check the Information for Authors - Other charges section of the relevant publisher agreement page).
Book processing charges
A Book Processing Charge (BPC) is a fee paid to a publisher to cover production costs (and potential revenue losses) by making books or book chapters openly accessible.
The Library does not have agreements with any publishers to cover BPCs.
- Publishing books has information on selecting book publishers.
- The Library supports UQ staff to publish open textbooks.
Questions
Contact your Faculty Services Librarians team for support.