Article processing charges (APCs)
Climate of the Past is committed to the open-access model of publishing. This ensures free web access to the results of research and maximum visibility for published papers. However, it requires the author or a supporting institution to pay the costs of the review process, typesetting, web publication, and long-term archiving. These article processing charges (APCs) are levied for the publication of the final revised paper in the journal (preprints are free of charge).
The following article processing charges (APC) are valid per paper accepted & produced for final journal publication in CP:
- Research articles: €1,600 net;
- Review articles: €1,600 net;
- Commentaries: €1,600 net;
- Rapid communications: €900 net;
- Corrigenda: free of charge.
What is included in the article processing charges?
- all online tools for authors and reviewers;
- professional processing of figures;
- typesetting, editing, and formatting in PDFLaTeX;
- English language copy-editing for final revised papers;
- immediate open-access publication of each article in *.pdf, *.xml, and *.html format;
- article alert service;
- indexing in international scientific databases and reference services;
- long-term archiving via Portico and CLOCKSS, as well as a number of national libraries.