Article Processing Charges (APC)— Open Access Journal
What is APC?
Open access publishing proposes a relatively new model for scholarly journal
publishing that provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of
all published articles.
Open access allows all interested readers to view, download, print, and redistribute
any article without a subscription, enabling far greater distribution of an author's
work than the traditional subscription-based publishing model. Many authors in a
variety of fields have begun to realize the benefits that open access publishing can
provide in terms of increasing the impact of their work world-wide.
In addition, authors who publish in Horizon open access journals retain the copyright of their work, which is released under a “Creative Commons Attribution License,” enabling the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of an article in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
Horizon publishes all its journals in full open access, meaning unlimited use and reuse
of articles, in addition to giving credit to the authors. All our articles are published
under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.
In addition, authors who publish in Horizon open access journals retain the copyright
of their work, which is released under a “Creative Commons Attribution License,”
enabling the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of an article in any
medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
Article Processing Charges
Article Processing Charges replace subscription charges and allow publishers to make
the full-text of every published article freely available to all interested readers.
JHSSR is the flagship publication that runs on not-for-profit basis. It operates through
the voluntary services of board members and editors.
As an open access journal, JHSSR is committed to ensuring permanent and universal
free access to all published articles, unlike closed-access journals which limit their
readership to those able to pay subscription fees. This means that JHSSR does not
receive any income from either subscriptions or article views/downloads. As
publishing is not without its costs, JHSSR needs to offset all production costs through
article processing charges.
An Article Publishing Charge (APC) of USD100 (Bank charges have to be defrayed by
authors) will be imposed on authors upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication.
All manuscripts published in our journals are open access and freely available online. APC
is crucial to sustain and develop an open-access journal. The APC payable for a manuscript
is agreed as part of the manuscript submission process. Authors pay a one-time APC to
cover the costs of publishing services we provide. This includes provision of online tools
for editors and authors, manuscript production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and
indexing services, and customer services. The corresponding author of the manuscript is
responsible for making or arranging the payment upon editorial acceptance of the
manuscript. We advise prompt payment as we are unable to publish accepted
manuscripts until payment has been received. Payment should be made immediately
once an APC invoice is sent to the author/s.
After you have successfully made the payment, please print the proof of payment as PDF
and email this document to the Journal Editorial Office at [email protected]. You
will receive an acknowledgement email once we have received the notification of
successful transaction from the bank. Should you have enquiries or issues regarding the
payment process, please contact us.
Refund Policy
The corresponding author assumes the responsibility for the APC payment. B.P.
Publishing will refund an APC if an error on our part has resulted in a failure to publish the
accepted manuscript. APCs will not be refunded when articles are withdrawn by the
author(s) or retracted as a result of author error or misconduct.
