Waiver Policy

Aditum Publications is committed to ensuring that authors can publish in their open-access journals despite the consequences of their financial status. The journal offers waivers on a case-to-case basis depending on the author's country classification, article funding status, and article type.

Taking into consideration factors like limited institutional funding for research activities, Aditum has a waiver fund to support full or partial waivers for authors based on the economic classification of their country. We have established a generous waiver system that may ease the payment of the processing fee when authors choose to publish their manuscripts with us.

Our prime goal is to step up the dissemination of knowledge through the publication of high-quality research articles to the scientific community. We are constantly working towards this goal without putting undue financial burden on researchers or their respective institutions. Hence, we have set up that the authors from Low Income and Middle-Income Countries may be granted maximum or full waiver.

To request a waiver, kindly mail an application to the journal editorial coordinator. The waiver application must include the article reference number and clearly state the reason for requesting the waiver.

The journal has the provision to provide a waiver of up to 30–40% of article processing charges for authors who have valid reasons and for those who belong to underdeveloped countries.

Note: Authors are advised that the request for a waiver or discount must be made at the time of manuscript submission. The journal editorial coordinator will respond accordingly. An author’s inability to pay will not affect the editorial peer review process or the outcome of the publication process.