waiving of open-access fees

Authors from developing countries submitting to Acta Crystallographica Section E 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.

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.

The IUCr has limited funds available for waivers, as the provision of waivers means that we have less funding for activities such as supporting schools and education of young researchers. We therefore cap the number of times an author (contact, correspondence or co-author) can benefit from a waiver voucher in a particular year. The current cap level is ten articles per year. For any authors in waiver countries who wish to publish further articles than this in a year we will offer a discounted open-access fee.

Waiver requests should be sent to supporte@iucr.org. Authors should provide a copy of the manuscript with the request.

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

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