According to the World Bank, Lebanon is now among the Lower-Middle-Income countries and classified as Group A by Research4Life. Hence, our authors are now eligible for waivers and discounts on open access publishing.
More information about the publishers, waivers, and discounts can be found here.
Before submitting, please email the publishers, describe our dire circumstances, and ask for full waivers/discounts.
Waivers and discounts for AUB Affiliates
Open Access (OA) refers to allowing unrestricted online access to scholarly information including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, graduate theses, data, and other. For more on information, click here.
AUB Libraries is participating in the membership program of the following open access publishers. Due to these memberships AUB scholars and academic researchers are eligible for waivers and discounts on the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing.
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9 free Article Processing Charges on a 1st come 1st served basis. Expiry Date 31- June 2024 |
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In case of lack of funding please click here for exceptional discounts |
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100% discount as mentioned in Waivers & Discounts Upon submission please contact support@bmj.com |
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Free Article Processing Charges till the end of 2023 in Gold and Hybrid journals |
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Free Article Processing Charges in gold open access journals |
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Free Article Processing Charges |
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Free Article Processing Charges |
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PLOS is offering waivers & discounts on a case-by-case basis Ask for a waiver by emailing the request to pfa@plos.org and to the journal's editor |
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Free Article Processing Charges |
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Free in most of Sage Gold Open Access Journals till the end of 2023 Submit your primary affiliation in peer review as American University in Beirut |
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8 free Article Processing Charges from SPIE on a 1st come 1st served basis
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In case of lack of funding please click here for exceptional discounts |
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In case of lack of funding please click here for exceptional discounts |
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50% discount In case of lack of funding please send a letter to the editor and ask for waivers |
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Free Article Processing Charges |
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Free Article Processing Charges |
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Springer, Springer Nature and BioMed Central:
If you are not in receipt of any research funds please send a scanned copy of:
Copies of these documents should be emailed to waivers@springernature.com.
For further assistance contact Mr. Albert Haddad, ah75@aub.edu.lb ext. 2608
