8 October 2020
IFL has signed a two-year agreement with academic publisher World Scientific. Under the agreement, corresponding authors from 34 EIFL partner countries will benefit from waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs) when publishing their articles in open access in one of 111 World Scientific journals.
Of the journals, 110 are hybrid and one is fully open access. More journals will be added during the agreement term, which ends on 31 December 2022.
Eligibility is as follows:
- Waived APCs for corresponding authors from: Albania, Botswana, Congo, Fiji, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, North Macedonia, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- 70% discounted APCs for corresponding authors from: Ethiopia, Uzbekistan
- 50% discounted APCs for corresponding authors from: Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Palestine, Serbia