Sami Publishing Company (SPC) operates a transparent waiver policy help support researchers who are unable to meet some or all of the cost associated with publishing open access.
Qualifying for a waiver
1. For author who have accepted 15 papers or 1000 citations in this year, , we have a 200-300 $ discount (This discount is only for the "Corresponding Author" not for co-workers).
2. For author (Corresponding Author-Highcited) who have accepted 20 papers or 1500 citations in this year, , we can consider 500$ discount.
3. To help support researchers in the low-income economies listed below, Sami Publishing Company (SPC) provides an automatic 200-300$ discount of any Article Processing Charges for manuscripts where all authors listed affiliation is in one of these countries.
4. The Low-income economy countries
Sami Publishing Company (SPC) provides 300$ waiver for Article Processing Charges on papers where all authors are based in any of the Low-income economy countries listed below.
- Afghanistan
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia (
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad (
- Comoros
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Congo
- Cote D’Ivoire
- Djibouti
- East Timor
- El Salvador
- Eritrea (
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Iran
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos (
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Mozambique (
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- North Korea (
- Palestinian Authority
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe