D. Open Access, Article Processing Charges, Waivers, and Licensing
AIMCC is a peer-reviewed, open access journal. Authors of accepted papers pay an article processing charge (APC), and each article is published under a Creative Commons license. Articles are immediately available to read, download, and share with attribution to the original article.
AIMCC is supported by APCs. The corresponding author of the manuscript is responsible for making or arranging the payment upon editorial acceptance of the manuscript. When the corresponding author is a member of ACP or AHA, the APC is $743; for nonmembers, $990. AIMCC works with Aptara to use its SciPris platform to invoice, collect, and process APCs. The corresponding author will receive an e-mail from SciPris with payment instructions when the manuscript has been accepted. They can pay by credit card through the SciPris PCI-compliant and secure website, or by check or wire transfer, or can designate the author(s), author institution/employer, or research funder responsible for payment. There is a range of sources of funding for open access APCs. Many grants allow funds to be used for APCs, and departmental or institutional funds administered by your organization or library may be available. The accepted manuscript will be published after payment is received or waiver is approved, and the copyediting, production, and electronic publishing work are complete.
Corresponding authors can request a waiver of the APC if the Corresponding Author is based in a country with a low-income economy according to the most recent World Bank classification and lack access to institutional funding. The Corresponding author should indicate their eligibility for a waiver of the APC in the Acknowledgment of Article-Processing Charge section of the submission form. Discretionary APC waivers are considered on a case-by-case basis for authors who do not meet the stated waiver criteria. In this case, the Corresponding Author should provide documentation of financial hardship. The waiver request and required documentation should be sent to [email protected]. The request will be sent to a senior member of the Publishing team for consideration. Please note that waiver requests after submission will not be considered, and AIMCC will not proceed with consideration of a submission until the waiver request is resolved.
Waiver requests will be withheld from the editors until a final editorial decision is determined and will be available only in aggregate form so individual authors cannot be identified.
The author, or employer if appropriate, retains copyright with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) license by default. Users do not have to obtain permission from the copyright owner or AIMCC to reuse the work, but the reuse cannot be for commercial purposes or change the work in any way. As with all Creative Commons Licenses, proper attribution to the original article is required.
However, if the author notifies the journal on submission and has a funder that requires a CC-BY license, the license will be applied. This license allows authors, or employers if appropriate, to retain copyright to their work, and end users to distribute, reuse, modify, and build upon a work as long as proper attribution to the original article is provided. Works published with a CC-BY license may be used for commercial purposes. The ACP and AHA are granted a nonexclusive license of all rights of copyright in and to the article for CC-BY 4.0 and CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licenses.