The charge
There is no submission fee, no reading fee, and no subscription. Readers pay nothing, ever.
When you pay
Never before screening. A submission is read first; only if it passes are you asked for anything.
That way nobody pays for work that is about to be handed back, and we never have to reverse a mobile money payment.
What the money pays for
- The moderator’s time reading your submission.
- Hosting the manuscript and its metadata.
- Keeping it available, and its link working, for the long term.
- Registering a DOI, once our membership is in place.
It does not buy acceptance. Screening happens before payment precisely so that it cannot.
How you pay
MTN Mobile Money or Orange Money. The repository launched in Cameroon and these are the rails that work here. If you are outside Cameroon and cannot pay this way, write to us before submitting rather than after.
What is free
- Reading Everything here, to everybody, always.
- Corrections Posting a new version of a paper that is already public costs nothing. We are not going to charge you to fix a typo: a repository that does fills up with papers nobody bothered to correct.
- Being turned away A returned or refused submission is never charged for.
These pages describe how the repository works today. When something changes here, it changes because the practice changed.