Country-tiered APC pricing pilot

Springer Nature is committed to increasing equity in open access and making OA publishing more accessible to all authors regardless of location or discipline. In addition to our established waiver and discount policy which supports authors in financial need, our TAs which enable authors from over 3,600 institutions globally to publish OA, and our exploration of different OA journal models via Cureus and many diamond journals, we are piloting a tiered APC pricing initiative on 64 of our journals.

How it works:

  • Countries are allocated to a pricing tier (a percentage of the journal’s standard APC, ranging from 100% to 0%)
  • The APC is set automatically upon an article’s acceptance, based on the corresponding author’s country of residence.

The pricing tiers have been created using information from a number of sources, including real-world availability of funding in any given country, as well as their historic waiver and discount needs. This means that no author will see a higher APC than they are already paying when existing waivers and discounts are taken into account.


The pilot runs alongside our standard APC waivers and discounts for financial need policy, meaning that authors may still request a further APC discount (on the adjusted APC for their country) on the ground of financial need via our standard process. 


If you have any further questions, please contact: ORSupport@springernature.com


Pricing tier per country

Country or Territory Name

APC to be paid (% of the journal's APC)

Afghanistan

0%

Albania

50%

Algeria

25%

American Samoa

100%

Andorra

100%

Angola

25%

Antigua and Barbuda

100%

Argentina

25%

Armenia

50%

Aruba

100%

Australia

100%

Austria

100%

Azerbaijan

50%

Bahamas

100%

Bahrain

50%

Bangladesh

25%

Barbados

100%

Belarus

50%

Belgium

100%

Belize

50%

Benin

25%

Bermuda

100%

Bhutan

25%

Bolivia

25%

Bosnia and Herzegovina

50%

Botswana

50%

Brazil

50%

Brunei

75%

Bulgaria

75%

Burkina Faso

0%

Burundi

0%

Cabo Verde

25%

Cambodia

50%

Cameroon

0%

Canada

100%

Cayman Islands

100%

Central African Republic

0%

Chad

0%

Channel Islands

100%

Chile

75%

China (Mainland)

100%

Colombia

75%

Comoros

25%

Congo (Democratic Republic)

0%

Congo (Republic)

25%

Costa Rica

50%

Côte d'Ivoire

50%

Croatia

75%

Cuba

50%

Curaçao

100%

Cyprus

100%

Czechia

100%

Denmark

100%

Djibouti

25%

Dominica

50%

Dominican Republic

50%

Ecuador

75%

Egypt

25%

El Salvador

50%

Equatorial Guinea

50%

Eritrea

0%

Estonia

100%

Eswatini

25%

Ethiopia

0%

Faroe Islands

100%

Fiji

0%

Finland

100%

France

100%

French Polynesia

100%

Gabon

50%

Gambia

0%

Georgia

50%

Germany

100%

Ghana

0%

Gibraltar

100%

Greece

100%

Greenland

100%

Grenada

50%

Guam

100%

Guatemala

50%

Guinea

25%

Guinea-Bissau

0%

Guyana

100%

Haiti

25%

Honduras

25%

Hong Kong

100%

Hungary

100%

Iceland

100%

India

25%

Indonesia

75%

Iran

25%

Iraq

50%

Ireland

100%

Isle of Man

100%

Israel

100%

Italy

100%

Jamaica

50%

Japan

100%

Jordan

50%

Kazakhstan

75%

Kenya

50%

Kiribati

25%

Korea (North)

0%

Korea (South)

100%

Kosovo

50%

Kuwait

100%

Kyrgyzstan

25%

Laos

25%

Latvia

100%

Lebanon

0%

Lesotho

25%

Liberia

0%

Libya

50%

Liechtenstein

100%

Lithuania

100%

Luxembourg

100%

Macao

100%

Madagascar

0%

Malawi

0%

Malaysia

75%

Maldives

50%

Mali

0%

Malta

100%

Marshall Islands

50%

Mauritania

25%

Mauritius

50%

Mexico

75%

Micronesia

25%

Moldova

50%

Monaco

100%

Mongolia

25%

Montenegro

50%

Morocco

25%

Mozambique

0%

Myanmar

25%

Namibia

50%

Nauru

100%

Nepal

0%

Netherlands

100%

New Caledonia

100%

New Zealand

100%

Nicaragua

25%

Niger

0%

Nigeria

0%

North Macedonia

50%

Northern Mariana Islands

100%

Norway

100%

Oman

75%

Pakistan

25%

Palau

50%

Palestine (State of)

0%

Panama

100%

Papua New Guinea

25%

Paraguay

50%

Peru

75%

Philippines

75%

Poland

100%

Portugal

100%

Puerto Rico

100%

Qatar

100%

Romania

100%

Russia

75%

Rwanda

0%

Saint Kitts and Nevis

100%

Saint Lucia

50%

Saint Martin (French part)

100%

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

50%

Samoa

25%

San Marino

100%

Sao Tome and Principe

25%

Saudi Arabia

75%

Senegal

50%

Serbia

50%

Seychelles

100%

Sierra Leone

0%

Singapore

100%

Sint Maarten (Dutch part)

100%

Slovakia

100%

Slovenia

100%

Solomon Islands

25%

Somalia

0%

South Africa

75%

South Sudan

0%

Spain

100%

Sri Lanka

0%

Sudan

0%

Suriname

50%

Sweden

100%

Switzerland

100%

Syria

0%

Taiwan

100%

Tajikistan

25%

Tanzania

25%

Thailand

75%

Timor-Leste

25%

Togo

0%

Tonga

50%

Trinidad and Tobago

100%

Tunisia

25%

Türkiye

25%

Turkmenistan

50%

Turks and Caicos Islands

100%

Tuvalu

50%

Uganda

0%

Ukraine

0%

United Arab Emirates

75%

United Kingdom

100%

United States

100%

Uruguay

50%

Uzbekistan

25%

Vanuatu

25%

Venezuela

50%

Vietnam

75%

Virgin Islands (British)

100%

Virgin Islands (U.S.)

100%

Yemen

0%

Zambia

25%

Zimbabwe

0%