waiving of open-access fees

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:
- 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.