Special Country Pricing
ACS special country pricing policy
ACS offers significantly discounted APC prices to papers in ACS fully open access journals whose submitting corresponding authors are based in countries classified by the World Bank as low-income economies as of August 2024.
Research articles whose submitting corresponding authors have a current primary affiliation based in a country classified by the World bank as lower-middle-income economies are eligible for discounted APC prices depending on origin, venue and license chosen with pricing between $965-1750, as detailed in the table below.
Special country prices apply to publications in ACS fully open access journals only. Authors qualifying for Country B pricing and who are ACS premium members will be eligible to receive the $250 USD member discount.
Submitting corresponding authors who are eligible for special pricing based on their primary affiliation, and who choose the zero-embargo green open access route when publishing with ACS, will receive the same level of discount on their article development charge.
Special country pricing for open access publications is automatically applied to eligible articles, based on the submitting corresponding author’s affiliation.
| Journal | Group A | Group B |
|---|---|---|
| ACS Central Science | $0 | $0 |
| ACS Omega | $0 | $965 |
| ACS Au Journals (CC BY) | $0 | $1750 |
| ACS Au Journals (CC BY-NC-ND) | $0 | $1500 |
| Other fully open access journals (CC BY) | $0 | $1750 |
| Other fully open access journals (CC BY-NC-ND) | $0 | $1500 |
| Group A | Group B | Group B continued |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Angola | Mauritania |
| Burkina Faso | Bangladesh | Micronesia (Federated States of) |
| Burundi | Benin | Morocco |
| Chad | Bhutan | Myanmar |
| Central African Republic | Bolivia | Nicaragua |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Cambodia | Nigeria |
| Eritrea | Cameroon | Nepal |
| Ethiopia | Comoros | Pakistan |
| Gambia | Congo, Republic of the | Palestine, State of |
| Guinea-Bissau | Côte d’Ivoire | Papua New Guinea |
| Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | Cabo Verde | Philippines |
| Liberia | Djibouti | Samoa |
| Madagascar | Egypt | São Tomé and Principe |
| Mali | Eswatini | Senegal |
| Malawi | Ghana | Solomon Islands |
| Mozambique | Guinea | Sri Lanka |
| Niger | Haiti | Tajikistan |
| Rwanda | Honduras | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sierra Leone | India | Timor-Leste |
| Somalia | Jordan | Tunisia |
| South Sudan | Kenya | Uzbekistan |
| Sudan | Kiribati | Vanuatu |
| Syrian Arab Republic | Kyrgyzstan | Venezuela |
| Togo | Lao PDR | Viet Nam |
| Uganda | Lebanon | Zambia |
| Yemen | Lesotho | Zimbabwe |