waiving of open-access fees

open access

Authors from developing countries submitting to IUCrJ may apply for a full or 50% waiver of their open-access fees. Waiver requests must be made before submission of an article. Successful applicants will be given a full or 50% waiver voucher valid for the submission of one article.

Apply for a voucher

For the purposes of waiving of fees, the correspondence author should be from a developing country with a small economy (with a GDP of less than USD 300 billion) that is in the World Bank's low income or lower-middle income categories. The correspondence author also needs to provide an institutional email address in the qualifying country.

Authors from low income countries qualify for a 100% waiver of fees:

  • Afghanistan
  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Congo, Dem. Rep.
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gambia, The
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bisau
  • Haiti
  • Korea, Dem. Rep.
  • Liberia
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mozambique
  • Nepal
  • Niger
  • Rwanda
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Uganda
  • Yemen, Rep.

Authors from the following lower-middle income countries qualify for a 50% waiver:

  • Angola
  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Comoros
  • Congo, Rep.
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Eswatini
  • Ghana
  • Honduras
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kyrgyz Republic
  • Lao PDR
  • Lesotho
  • Mauritania
  • Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Myanmar
  • Nicaragua
  • Papua New Guinea
  • São Tomé and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sudan
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tunisia
  • Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Vietnam
  • West Bank and Gaza
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

If you do not qualify for a waiver under the above rules, discretionary waivers may be available for authors who demonstrate financial need. Note that IUCrJ expects authors to exhaust all alternative funding sources before applying for a discretionary waiver. For additional information, contact iucrj@iucr.org.



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