waiving of open-access fees

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.

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.

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:

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

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.