APC / Fees Funding
APC - Article Processing Charge
Our publications are full open access. The publishing costs are to be payed ideally by the institutions (E.g. Universities, Libraries, Local Authorities) that, have proper funding and, benefit from the fact that their affiliated authors publish in rigorously peer reviewed, indexed, internationally recognised publications.
Unless otherwise stated, APC is mandatory for all approved papers. With the following exceptions:
- Authors affiliated with the Institutions that are Members of UC R&D Consortium;
- Members of the publication Committees and other Invited Authors.
(Invited authors can be invited for merit or/and justified payment incapacity).
The payment must be processed after the paper acceptance for publication.
Payments that need invoice please contact with: name, fiscal number and address.
Unless otherwise agreed, these values should be considered per author.
Independent researchers (reduced*): 50 eur - Payment Link (card/ paypal)
(with no support from any Institution, no affiliation mention or reference)
Independent researchers: 250 eur - Payment Link (card/ paypal)
(with no support from any Institution)
Institutional payment: 750 eur - Payment Link (card/ paypal)
(fee payed by the Institution, with affiliation, e.g. University, Research unit reference)
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Costumized value - Payment Link (card/ paypal)
Payments via bank transfer
Payment to:
WISETHOROUGH
Centro de Negócios da Junqueira,
Praça das industrias s/n
1300 307 Lisboa, Portugal
Tax ID: 518449599
IBAN: PT50-0033-0000-45763799169-05
BIC/ Swift: BCOMPTPL
Bank Name: BANCO COMERCIAL PORTUGUES
Bank Address: Praça D. João I, 28, 4000-295 Porto
Please send us your details for invoice (via info@urbancreativity.org):
Name, Address, Contact, Tax ID nº
Open Access Funding
National or International main funding bodies, can support publishing research grants trough:
- directly from funders;
- research organizations (funded by main funding bodies);
- sub unit's from research organizations (funded by research orgs);
The Funding Bodies follow local and international policies regarding OA.
To know more about the existent funders, research orgs and unit's please browse the:
Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP)
Institutional publishing agreement models
Agreement models an affordable option that allows authors to freely publish in our open access journals. The institution pays an annual flat fee and all articles that have a corresponding author from the institution are published free of charge (no APCs). Contact us.
* For issues and/or authors with a previous agreement.