Book Publishing Fee

USD 500: Compacts Monograph – Short Form (up to 25 pages).

USD 700: Chapters in open access books (up to 40 pages).

USD 900: Monographs and edited collections (up to 200 pages).

USD 1800: Monographs and edited collections (up to 400 pages).

How is the fee paid?

The author for correspondence of each book chapter is responsible for making, or arranging, the payment (for example, via the institution). An invoice will be issued to the author for correspondence after the editorial acceptance of the chapter with instructions for payment.

Why is a fee charged?

A fee is charged to cover the costs of book production and making it freely available to the public. The typical costs associated with the production of a book include book processing, unrestricted free open access, technology, and post publication activities.

Authors are asked to pay a Book Processing Charge (BPC) or Chapter processing charges (CPC) in order for their book or chapter to be published Open Access under a Creative Commons license. This covers the costs of commissioning, copyediting and proofreading, production, dissemination and promotion of our authors’ work, including online hosting and indexing.

Unrestricted free open access: All publications are freely available to the public. Anyone with an access to internet can access, read, and download the chapters without any restrictions.

Technology: Online presence requires a publishing platform, hosting, necessary security features and email services.

Post publication activities: Applying for indexing in various repositories, chapter promotion, marketing and continued online presence.

Fee waiver policy

Low-income economies: If a chapter in an edited volume is contributed by authors from countries listed as low-income economies by the World Bank, we offer a 50% fee waiver upon producing proof from their institutions that all authors reside in that country, and that the research was done in that country or another lower-middle income economy. The list of countries is given below:

Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Dem. Rep), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Korea (Dem. People’s Rep), Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Lower-middle- income economies: If a chapter in an edited volume is contributed by authors from countries listed as lower-middle-income economies by the World Bank, we offer a 25% fee waiver upon producing proof from their institutions that all authors reside in that country, and that the research was done in that country or another lower-middle income economy. The list of countries is given below:

Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo (Rep), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt (Arab Rep), El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lesothom, Mauritania, Micronesia (Fed. Sts), Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen (Rep), Zambia.