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ASTRA Proceedings An open-access journal for refereed proceedings in extraterrestrial research
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Article processing charges (APCs)

ASTRA Proceedings is committed to the open-access model of publishing. This ensures free web access to the results of research and maximum visibility for published papers. However, it requires the author or a supporting institution to pay the costs of the review process, typesetting, web publication, and long-term archiving. These article processing charges (APCs) are categorized according to the submitted material and levied for the publication of the final journal paper.

Financial support

The following article processing charges are valid for any manuscript submitted from 1 January 2016. Manuscripts submitted before this date are charged €30/35 net per page.

Price per Page Description
Category 1 €31 net LaTeX submissions using the Copernicus Publications LaTeX Package
Category 2 €36 net Word submissions using the Copernicus Publications Word Template
English language copy-editing: €10 net per page

What is included in the article processing charges?

  • all online tools for authors and reviewers;
  • professional processing of figures;
  • typesetting, editing, and formatting in PDFLaTeX;
  • immediate open-access publication of each article;
  • article alert service;
  • indexing in international scientific databases and reference services;
  • long-term e-archiving via Portico and CLOCKSS as well as printed archiving via copyright libraries worldwide.
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