Publication charges policy
Publication charges are bit unusual in Pakistan by the local journals. Consequently, the authors are not used to the assistances. Therefore, various circles regarding the article charges following by MAKHZ having speculated many queries, ambiguities and misperceptions. In this perspective the Board of trustees assigned a special task to the editorial Board of MAKHZ to come up with a publication charges policy encircling the worldwide major publication houses, research group and research houses. Furthermore, the board was directed to pay special attention by giving relief as much as possible to the Ph. D scholars and young researchers from Pakistan while drafting the policy.
Funding sources
Although the authors are responsible for making or arranging payment of the publication charges in most cases they can rely on their institutions and funders for financial support. These bodies can cover publication charges in a variety of ways for example by establishing Open Access (OA) fund, making part of their Journal funding. In order to support sustainable open access publishing there are many approaches to pay the due charges. These charges are usually had to pay by the authors’ institutions or research funders. But where will go the author or researcher having no facility or a proper funder. Cogent OA (Taylor and Francis-Informal Group) pioneered a new module of financial contribution to pay the publication charges, titled as “Freedom Articles Publishing Charges”. It allows authors to choose how much to contribute towards the publication charges of their research in open access journals. MAKHZ operates freedom APC model only for Ph. D, MS/M. Phil scholars. The said model was approved for the purpose to encourage the research in Pakistan.
Description
Once the article has submitted, the author will be awarded with acknowledgement of receipt article. Then the article will go through the pre-editorial review that is totally free of cost. Pre-editorial review means to check up and scrutinize the submitted article on the very basic criteria of MAKHZ publishing policy, it includes:
- Article processing charges (pre-acceptance) –APC-I
It constitutes about 45% of the whole process charges, for permanent, instant, all inclusive and worldwide access to the full article text the publication charges cover:
Editorial work: administrative support, commissioning content, editorial layout, journal development, and correspondence with the authors, reviewers and referees.
Review and evaluation: editorial review, triple blind review, foreign evaluation (2 international and 2 national referees).
Technical infrastructure and innovation: development, maintenance and operation of online journal system and websites and coordination among the editorial board.
Production of articles: formatting and markup of articles.
Note: article processing charges (pre-acceptance) APC-1 Does not depict the acceptance of the article for publication by any means.
- Article Publishing charges (post Acceptance)-APC
It constitutes of 55% of the whole process charges. Publication charges covers
Marketing of journal and content: making sure readers and authors know about the work published in the title.
Promotion on various mediums: content advertising via various world recognized forums and groups, data bases, research software, and social media
Customer service: responding to authors and readers
Circulation: published contents circulation in the relevant circle for enhancing citations.
Production of articles: inclusion in abstracting, indexing, aggregating, linking, uploading in world-class reputable research databases, directories and bibliographies.
Publication Charges
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Category |
Publishing |
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Pakistani |
37000 PKR |
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Foreign |
US$ 310 |
Publication charges would be received after final report of the reviewers, and link will be shared after paying charges.
Waiving: if an author would like that their article to be published under a gold open access model, but cannot afford the APC, then individual waiver requests are considered on a case to case basis and may be granted in cases of genuine need. Authors who are eligible for such concession include those who have won any national excellence award. Undergraduates with quality manuscripts, orphan, special persons handicapped and those whose parents and siblings are martyred/ affected by war on terror.
For any queries please feel free to contact via:
Email: editor@makhz.org.pk