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Publication Fees

Open Access articles are free for anyone to read and download, all over the world. To sustain this model, journal costs including editorial assistance, article production, indexing, and marketing are covered either by author charges or via our Subscribe to Open initiative. As a not-for-profit society publisher, any surplus generated by our publishing activities are rechanneled towards the charitable missions of the International Water Association; including contributions to sustainable development in a water-wise world

Open Access journals with APCs

 

The following journals operate under an author-pay (APC) model. Submissions are made on the understanding that, following acceptance, the APC must be paid before the paper can be published.

 

    

Journal

Article Processing Charge

 

H2Open Journal

$2,150 / £1,750 / €1,975

 

Blue-Green Systems  

$2,250 / £1,850 / €2,075

 

Water Reuse (previously Journal of Water Reuse & Desalination)                              

$2,250 / £1,850 / €2,075

 

Hydrology Research

$2,250 / £1,850 / €2,075


Institutional Agreements

IWA Publishing has established a number of institutional agreements through which author fees are covered by our institutional partners. For a list of our current institutional agreements, click here. Think your institution should be on our list, or have a question about OA funding? Get in touch.

Waivers

We believe that anyone should be able to publish Open Access. As such, we are proud to partner with Research4Life and EIFL to grant waivers to authors in eligible countries. For more information on our waiver programme, see here

Open Access journals without APCs

The following journals operate under a Subscribe to Open (S2O) model. Each year, institutions, organisations and individuals contribute to our annual Open Access goal by 'subscribing' to individual journals or to the entire journal package. These S2O subscriptions allow us to waive author fees (APCs) in these journals.

To help us sustain this model and ensure that our journals can remain Open Access, individual authors can choose to support the model by contributing the cost of what would have been the journal’s APC towards an individual S2O subscription. For more information on this, contact subscriptions@iwap.co.uk.

 


Water Science and Technology


 

Water Supply

 

 

AQUA

 

 

Journal of Water and Health

 

 

Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development

 

 

Water Quality Research Journal

 

 

Journal of Water and Climate Change


 

Water Practice and Technology

 

 

Journal of Hydroinformatics

 

 

Water Policy

 


Retrospective Open Access

Under Subscribe to Open, articles submitted before but published after 1 February 2021 are made Open Access under a CC BY license and the associated author-fee is waived. Articles published in the five years prior to 1 February 2021 are free-to-read. We offer authors who have published in IWA Publishing journals prior to 1 February 2021 the opportunity to make their papers open access retrospectively. Please contact us for further details.

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