Why does The Research Publication charge publication fees from authors?

All original research papers published by The Research Publication (TRP) are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. We guarantee that no university library or individual reader will ever have to pay any pay-per-view fees to access articles in the electronic version of any journal. There is hence no revenue at TRP from the sale of subscriptions to the electronic version or from pay-per-view fees. Yet, the online publication process does involve costs including those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing with DOI, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving. To cover these costs, TRP charges publication fees (also called Article Publishing Charges, henceforth APC) from authors and subscription charges only for its printed version.

The Research Publication offers the following licenses for all the journals:

Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND).

Allows users to: distribute and copy the article; and include in a collective work. These uses are permitted only for non-commercial purposes and provided the user: gives appropriate credit to the author(s) (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI); provides a link to the license; and does not alter or modify the article.

Gold open access publication fee

To provide gold open access, this journal has a publication fee (Article Publishing Charge, APC) which needs to be met by the authors, or their institution or funders, for each article published open access. This ensures your article will be immediately and permanently free to access by everyone.

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Regular APC for TRP Open Access Journals                                   India                   Other Countries

Asian Journal of Computer Science and Technology              Rs.3,000                     $100
Asian Journal of Engineering and Applied Technology          Rs.3,000                     $100

Asian Journal of Electrical Sciences                                        Rs.3,000                     $100
Asian Journal of Managerial Science                                      Rs.3,000                     $100
Asian Journal of Science and Applied Technology                 Rs.3,000                     $100
Asian Review of Mechanical Engineering                               Rs.3,000                     $100
The Asian Review of Civil Engineering                                   Rs.3,000                     $100
Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology          Rs.3,000                     $100
Asian Review of Social Sciences                                              Rs.3,000                     $100

1. Low-income countries eligible for article publishing charge waivers.

Corresponding authors with primary affiliation in countries defined by the World Bank as low-income economies are entitled to 50% APC waiver when they publish in The Research Publication journals.

Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Uganda, and Republic of Yemen.

2. Corresponding authors with primary affiliation in Top 50 Universities in QS World University Rankings are entitled to 100% APC waiver when they publish in The Research Publication Journals.

The Research Publication does not request Article Submission Charges, also called Submission Fees. Nor does TRP charge per page or for color figures or for any other items for which other publishers are known to charge. APC are due when a manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Refund of Article Processing Charges

The Research Publication is committed to ensure smooth and efficient processing of manuscripts with utmost care.

In order to cover the costs incurred in handling of manuscript/s, it becomes pertinent to impose Article Processing Charges (APC). However, there are certain situations in which refund of the APC may be warranted. The journal’s policy for refund of APC, stands as follows:

Refund of APC will be issued within 14 days only under the following circumstances:

• If an error occurs on the publisher’s part, resulting in failure to publish the manuscript.
• If multiple payments are inadvertently received against the APC of a single manuscript.

However, no refund will be processed if:

• The author chooses to withdraw the manuscript after payment of APC.
• The manuscript is retracted due to claims of plagiarism or copyright infringement.