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Article Processing Charges (APC)

IEEE Access is a gold fully open access, multidisciplinary journal supported by article processing charges (APCs).

The APC is $2,160 per article (plus applicable local taxes) without page limits. However, we do strongly recommend keeping the page count under 20 pages for ease of readability. Please see our Submission Guidelines for additional information.

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$2,160

per article

(plus applicable local taxes)

Discounts Available

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The author may be required by funding agencies to publish in an OA journal, making research freely available to all reader communities.

Why are there APCs for Open Access?

There are a number of factors IEEE takes into account when developing pricing for article processing charges (APCs) or any of its publishing offerings. IEEE designs its open access publishing program to be sustainable, taking into account all of the costs related to publishing an article and maintaining a high-quality publishing program.

HOW DO APCs GET USED?

The APC is used to cover the cost of publishing the article and archiving it in IEEE Xplore:

  • Editorial work, peer-review administration, management, and platform maintenance
  • Professional production of articles, copy editing, and formatting in PDF and other formats
  • Tools and administration for securing and protecting IP rights and plagiarism checks
  • Dissemination of papers in various venues for bibliometric monitoring and management
  • Technical infrastructure such as data storage and management, publishing platform development, data security, and maintenance
  • Institutional open access administration tools
  • Ensure proper indexing of articles and maximize discoverability
  • Marketing and communications to raise awareness of published content
  • Customer service for authors, readers, and institutions, and author support tools
  • Digital preservation services to ensure long-term archival access to scholarly literature
  • Governance to ensure enforcement of editorial policies, procedures, and quality controls
  • Various other publishing functions and infrastructure costs

For more information, please visit: https://open.ieee.org/about/faqs/

No Page Length Limits or Over-Length Article Charges

There is no page limit for articles and therefore no over-length article charge. However, we do strongly recommend keeping the page count under 20 pages for ease of readability. Please see our Submission Guidelines for additional information.

View Submission Guidelines

Discounts Available

Discounts are offered to the following groups. Please note that discounts cannot be combined.

MEMBERS

  • Corresponding authors who are IEEE members receive a 5% discount
  • IEEE members who are also IEEE Society members receive a 20% discount (the 5% IEEE member discount plus an additional 15% discount for Society membership)
  • Please note that this discount does not apply to Student or Graduate Student Members

Authors located in low-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) are eligible for discounts on article processing charges. Discounts are only applied if all authors are located in a country eligible for a discount. For more information, please click here. 

The IEEE APC waiver for low-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) is in place to assist authors from geographical locations whose economic situation creates a genuine hardship that would otherwise prohibit them from publishing. However, we expect that all sources of funding are considered; for example, if all co-authors are not from low-income countries, our expectation is that they will help cover the required APC.  

Your institution’s library may have established a deposit account with IEEE to pay APCs on your behalf. Please check with your institution’s library to see if a deposit account is available. To view all the current IEEE Open Access Institutional Partners please click here.